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The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting.
The good life—the vita beata—is like reading a Russian novel: It takes two hundred pages of struggling with the characters before one can start enjoying things. Then the agitation starts to make sense.
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane: everything else on your eyelids manipulates you with an ad.
After a long diet from the media, I came to realize that there is nothing that’s not (clumsily) trying to sell you something. I only trust my library.
Business wars are typically lost by both parties; academic wars are won by both sides.
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
Some pursuits are much duller from the inside. Even piracy, they say.
