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“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
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“I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
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