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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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“Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over it.”
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“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
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“If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight – as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.”
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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
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Billie’s 2023 Year in Books
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