What hurts us worst is to have our favorite self-deceptions stripped away. - Edgar Pangborn

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If you’re interested in ethics, you could do worse than think in terms of geological time.

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One would think that the mere shortness of life would be a reminder that to destroy beauty is to destroy one’s own self too.

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They measure rank as Mussolini did, by the amount of carpet between door and desk.

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