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"this man is actively doing math while humanity is dying" — Dec 02, 2025 03:47AM
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“It is a sign of regression when pleasure begins to be considered as the highest principle”
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― Babel
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― Babel
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