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We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older.
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For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.
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