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“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression,”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics

“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?”
― Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
― Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

“How many flutterings before they rest quietly in their graves! They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high! They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when men, with their boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and as ripe,--with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed their bodies, as they do their hair and nails.”
― Autumnal Tints
― Autumnal Tints

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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