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“Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure: my mind was absorbed with more immediate concerns, such as the exact balance of my bank account, who I owed how much, and whether there was anything in my room I could sell for ten or twenty dollars.”
― Educated
― Educated
“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but
with kindness and affection for those who love
you, and not with hatred for your enemies.”
― Frankenstein
with kindness and affection for those who love
you, and not with hatred for your enemies.”
― Frankenstein
“To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable home movie that documents one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for each screening.”
― On Self-Respect
― On Self-Respect
“I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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