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I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
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We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est (They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier).
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