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If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back.
“In the realm of political action, laws are few and far indeed: skills are everything.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
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“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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