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"Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. "

"Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. ..."

"I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--pr..."

"Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be ..."

"…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed..."

"Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable."

"Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism."

"Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out."

"They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil."

"Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outloo..."