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“If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.”
― Clifford Geertz

“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
― Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
― Milan Kundera

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.”
― Francis Picabia

“I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.”
― Guy Debord

“Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.”
― Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror