He left a scholar; he arrived an immigrant.
“Nick Cave, when confronted with a ChatGPT-generated version of a Nick Cave song, described the phenomenon as “replication as travesty … a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Examine your rules of education; you will find them all topsy-turvy, especially in all that concerns virtue and morals. The only moral lesson which is suited for a child—the most important lesson for every time of life—is this: “Never hurt anybody.”
― Emile
― Emile
“half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.”
― Mr. Palomar
― Mr. Palomar
“and I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder”
― A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
― A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
“Occasionally we grew so tired and breathless with fighting them that we had to desist,—and immediately the donkey would come down to a deliberate walk. This, with the fatigue, and the sun, would put a man asleep; and soon as the man was asleep, the donkey would lie down. My donkey shall never see his boyhood’s home again. He has lain down once too often. He must die.”
― The Innocents Abroad
― The Innocents Abroad
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