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Emotions are not reactions to the world. You are not a passive receiver of sensory input but an active constructor of your emotions.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
I am susceptible to frivolity. I know this about myself. I love beauty; I am weak to surfaces; I am apt to mistake eccentricity for character. I drink more than I should. I love overdressing; I love staying up past midnight; I love breakfasts at all-night diners, and the Irish coffees you order when you can’t decide whether it’s night or morning.
Isabella Burton • On Good Parties
I give this book to everyone. Tufte works through hundreds of syntax patterns and their effects on the reader, using real examples drawn from every type of writing imaginable.
This book is a fucking joy. https://t.co/3t797GQsYw
You have to create your own mythology if the world isn’t supplying it.
Shore Leave • Like Shining From Shook Foil
You don't have to prove anything. You can just try things.
Empirical insight is often superior to rational insight.
Simon Sarristwitter.comThe first hard choice
You must spend your life walking through fields of lotuses, listening to the beautiful music of the sirens.
Always, you could come closer to the sirens, and risk destroying yourself.
Always, you could eat more of the lotus, and you could choose to abandon what matters.
This is the first hard choice. You must choose to be the kind
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