

“Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“I am not pointing fingers, but rather pointing at the facts, as the facts point fingers regardless.”
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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, his screaming sounds like singing.”
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“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life

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