The Bodega at the End of the Internet

Slowly the disease of the soul, which rich people have, grabbed hold of him.

we mistakenly spend time figuring out how to win the game we're in instead of choosing which game to play in the first place.

"Then it must be my sixth sense. A gift God gave me — or maybe a curse.

All I know is that I've suffered because of it."

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

In short, when people believe in fixed traits, they are always in danger of being measured by a failure. It can define them in a permanent way. Smart or talented as they may be, this mindset seems to rob them of their coping resources.

belief determines perception

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

"Conscience" is a slave driver, put into man by himself. It drives him to act according to wishes and aims which he believes to be his own, while they are actually the internalization of external social demands. It drives him with harshness and cruelty, forbidding him pleasure and happiness, making his whole life the atonement for some mysterious