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The Bed of Procrustes (2016)
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
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People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.
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Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.
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You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
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Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
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You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.
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The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general;... the wise does neither.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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(age 64)
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