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“I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.”
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“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
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“Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.”
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“Is is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.”
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“The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.”
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
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