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“Not wanting to be destroyed by despair doesn’t make you a coward. It makes you a survivor.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“Sometimes I would worry about my internet habits and force myself awy from the computer, to read a magazine or book. Contemporary literature offered no respite: I would find the prose cluttered with data points, tenuous historical connections, detail so finely tuned it could have only been extracted from a feverish night of search-engine queries. Aphorisms were in; authors were wired. I would pick up books that had been heavily documented on social media, only to find that the books themselves had a curatorial affect: beautiful descriptions of little substance, arranged in elegant vignettes—gestural text, the equivalent of a rumpled linen bedsheet or a bunch of dahlias placed just so. Oh, I would think, turning the page. This author is addicted to the internet, too.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“I realize how awful people are to each other, how a pervasive cynicism exists in most of us that stops us from seeing the best parts of one another”
― Suzanne Redfearn, In an Instant

“calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness