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“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
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“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
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“He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
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