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book quotes that helped shape you?

>> No.14583392

Musashi talking to a stupid women that won't leave him alone
"I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself. " — Eiji Yoshikawa

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There’s always something

>> No.14583850

They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.

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>> No.14584921

>>14584180
He was correct about everything.
Except one thing; technology gave them access to human attention, and they could spread their malware and human control algorithms to the point it's not total anarchy, but artificial social constructs.

>> No.14584936

>a cow sez moo
Thomas Pynchon

>> No.14585070

>>14583408
How the fuck does this even in the slightest sense help you?

>> No.14585080

>>14583312
Something in A Sailor who fell from grace with the sea. It went something about the kid's group priding themselves in their malice.

It felt much like ironical edginess. Since then, I've done my best to stay away from that, and have taken steps to become a more empathic, helping and selfless individual.

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>>14585070
I believe in an eternal universe. It’s just my outlook on the nature of things.