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Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
The Corrections
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
The Corrections
And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?
The Corrections
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.
The Corrections
There�s the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you�re a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself.
Purity
It seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten.
Purity
The American middle-class appetite for illegal drugs provided the capital to build some of the most sophisticated and effective companies on earth.
Purity
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays