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"A hundred times I wanted to kill myself, but always I loved life more. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts; is anything more stupid than choosing to carry a burden that really one wants to cast on the ground? to hold existence in horror, and yet to cling to it? to fondle the serpent which devours us till it has eaten out our heart? —In the countries through which I have been forced to wander, in the taverns where I have had to work, I have seen a vast number of people who hated their existence; but I never saw more than a dozen who deliberately put an end to their own misery."

- Candide, ou l'Optimisme
Voltaire

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Lethargic disgust would aptly describe
life here in old shadypines
I was swept in here by kids long ago
they'd thought I would die - but i won't
And I've heard a hundred old men say they'd escape
But I'll be the first to really getaway
for candide!
For life!


But these old lungs can barely take it
and this time I'm not sure that I will make it
much further than gate
or much further down the line
but i'll get some pills from my comrades
and I'l make it, I'll make it time

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from Playing with the Grotesques, released August 26, 2012

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