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  • Sep 2006 to Dec 2014PhDSociologyNew York, New York
  • Class of 2004Master of ArtsSocial ScienceChicago, Illinois
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Favorite Quotes
  • "Any time you make a move forward, you lose something." (Camille Paglia)

    "What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived." (Carl Jung)

    "If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?" (Kabir)

    "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." (Molière)

    "[M]odernity is a surprisingly simple deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power." (Yuval Noah Narari)

    "It is only with age that you acquire the gift to evaluate decay, the epiphany of Wordsworth, the wisdom of the wabi-sabi: nothing is perfect, nothing is complete, nothing lasts." (Paul Theroux)

    "If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear." (Roberto Bolaño)

    "Only in chaos are we conceivable." (Roberto Bolaño)

    "[W]e've reached a point where we almost regard "real life" as hard work, as a job, and we've all agreed in private that it's really better in books." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

    "[W]hen Tao is lost there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is kindness. When kindness is lost, there is justice. When justice is lost, there is ritual. Ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion." (Lao Tzu)

    "Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade or clatter like stone chimes." (Lao Tzu)