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The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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