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“We love the sciences and scholarly disciplines, each his own, and yet we know that devotion to a discipline does not necessarily preserve a man from selfishness, vice, and absurdity.”
― The Glass Bead Game
― The Glass Bead Game
“A man’s worth is established by the number of these defining circumstances he is able to create for himself. He need not always be successful, for there can be great honor in defeat.”
― Trust
― Trust
“The world has no visible order and all I have is the order of my breath. I let myself happen.”
― Água Viva
― Água Viva
“I think I’ve never before really seen how beautiful it is … But I suppose it’s because I’m seeing it for the first time as something I must leave and say farewell to.”
― The Glass Bead Game
― The Glass Bead Game
“It couldn’t hurt to think I was beautiful anyway. After all, I think L.A.’s beautiful and it’s not fashionable or right.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
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