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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

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Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

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