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“I thought of an old poker players’ expression: If you look around the table and can’t spot the sucker, the sucker is you.”
― A Lonely Resurrection
― A Lonely Resurrection
“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“In dying, he now realized, you do not encounter death at all, for you are gone before it gets there.”
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
“In the defense of the seeds of life, the greatest symbol we can offer is to burn the [Monsanto] seeds which symbolize money, symbolize death. In defense, to defend the seeds of the peasants is to defend the seeds of life.”
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