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I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

-- Unknown, Source | Parasites

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

-- Shaw, George Bernard | Parasites

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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

-- Elton, Ben | Parasites

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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

-- Bronte, Charlotte | Parasites

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