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“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”
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“So the peak of human knowledge or philosophy is to recognize its own uselessness—if man were still the same as he was in the beginning—and to undo the damage that it has done, and return man to the condition in which he would always have been if it had never existed.”
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
“Cultural history, as well as observation of ourselves and others, allow the following answer: Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
― The Last Messiah
― The Last Messiah
“Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.”
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
“To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn”
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