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Most human suffering is not due to lack of information or opportunity, but due to our stubborn loyalty to lies:
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― In a Free State
― In a Free State
“I remember how excited I was to work for the Ivy League. By the time I left, I would not advise anyone to work for them.”
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“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling.
Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”
― The First Man
Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”
― The First Man
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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