"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy." W. C. Fields

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Where are the people? resumed the little prince at last.

Its a little lonely in the desert It is lonely when youre among people, too, said the snake.

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe ones very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Candide: or, Optimism, Voltaire

"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe." Richard Gere

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? Mark Twain

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