However intimate we may be with the operations of the mind, we cannot think more than two or three minutes a day; — unless, by taste or by profession… - Emil Cioran

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However intimate we may be with the operations of the mind, we cannot think more than two or three minutes a day; — unless, by taste or by profession, we practice, for hours on end, brutalizing words in order to extract ideas from them. The intellectual represents the major disgrace, the culminating failure of Homo sapiens.