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JD Robles
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While he dropped fortunes at roulette and insisted on his guests having the best view and every delicacy in restaurants, he himself would often walk home or take the Underground rather than choose the comfort of a cab.
“life itself is ESSENTIALLY appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation;”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“A sinecure is when you get money for doing nothing,’ I said.”
― Under the Net
― Under the Net
“the other half of me lived in my dreams of going home.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I don't know it, I don't know it just like you. I'm travelling. I was a rich man and am no rich man any more, and what I'll be tomorrow, I don't know.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“the only time I experience touch is from people whom I am paying,”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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