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“Like Voltiare, I believe that the ideal form of government is democracy tampered with assassination.”
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“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you'd ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought about between shorter bursts of thinking about the things everyone thought about: sex and food and sleep and friends and money and fame.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Ignorance can be cured but stupid is forever.”
― Stupid is Forever
― Stupid is Forever
“But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.” Perhaps it begins with one person. Someone you trust. You remove a piece of armor for them; you let the light stream in, even if it makes you wince. Perhaps that is how you learn to be soft yet strong,”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
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