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Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in the now, as intensity.
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time
living
love
hindsight
insight
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If there was no imperative, it was not love.
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fate
love
certainty
predestined
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Seks is geen ruilhandel, het is een schenkeconomie.
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The Sunset was transformed. The grocery store on Irving was gourmet. A girl I was friends with in high school worked the meat counter. People who looked like frat boys crowded the streets, wearing college sweatshirts and sipping health drinks out of giant Styrofoam containers. They even moved the old post office, which felt like a grievous insult. Everything got converted by money and I started to miss these grim places that offered no happ..
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He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. "Within, but just barely" was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit."
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slavery
labor
exploitation
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Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.
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silence
wisdom
misappropriation
deception
deep-thoughts
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and it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.
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Rachel Kushner |
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The three passions," Stanley had said to me that morning, "are love, hate, and ignorance. Ignorance is the strongest."
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