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However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.


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A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.



You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.



My own apathy is bone chilling.

My own apathy is bone chilling.



In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.



Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.



It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.



But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.



Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.



Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.



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The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.





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Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.



I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.



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The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.



No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

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When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.




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