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Italo Calvino
“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

W.N.P. Barbellion
“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.”
W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Amartya Sen
“A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.”
Amartya Sen

John Dewey
“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey

Hermann Hesse
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
Herman Hesse

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