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Douglas Coupland
“I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don't know any successful people”
Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets us fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet. This explains many things, and among them the fact that everyone measures us with his own standard—generally about as long as a tailor's tape, and we have to put up with it: as also that no one will allow us to be taller than himself—a supposition which is once for all taken for granted.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

John Berger
“This seems to me absolutely one of the quintessential things about the human condition. It’s what actually distinguishes man from any other animal: living with those who have lived and the companionship of those who are no longer alive. Not necessarily the people that one knew personally, I mean the people perhaps whom one only knows by what they did, or what they left behind, this question of the company of the past, that’s what interests me, and archives are a kind of site in the sense of like an archaeological site.”
John Berger, Portraits: John Berger on Artists

Arthur Schopenhauer
“what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes. All and nothing! Thrasymachos. I thought so! I gave you a problem, and you solve it by a contradiction. That's a very stale trick. Philalethes. Yes, but you raise transcendental questions, and you expect me to answer them in language that is only made for immanent knowledge. It's no wonder that a contradiction ensues.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

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