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“Those who accused him of being excessively frugal failed to understand that, in truth, he had no appetites to repress.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“A just called from Z (again), asking for advice. Kolbe, Lenbach, London, NY etc., etc., etc., etc. As always, he mistakes doubt with depth, hesitation with analysis.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Fiction harmless? Look at religion. Fiction harmless? Look at the oppressed masses content with their lot because they have embraced the lies imposed on them. History itself is just a fiction-a fiction with an army. And reality? Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget. That's what it is. And how is reality funded? With yet another fiction: money. Money is at the core of it all. An illusion we've all agreed to support. Unanimously. We can differ on other matters, like creed or political affiliations, but we all agree on the fiction of money and that this abstraction represents concrete goods. Any goods. Look it up. It's all in Marx. Money, he says, is not one thing. It is, potentially, all things. And for this reason it is unrelated to all things.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“She found it baffling and inexcusable that the medical sciences, which had made so much progress in every field, should lag in such a neglectful way when it came to mental disorders.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust