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“A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.”
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“I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.”
― The Journal of a Disappointed Man
― The Journal of a Disappointed Man
“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
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“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
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A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi ...more
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