

“If you seek and accept only the best, you are a maximizer.”
― The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
― The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

“Metamodernism lies between modernism and postmodernism while exerting an enthusiastic irony, a hopeful melancholy, a knowledgeable naiveté, an apathetic empathy, a plural unity, and an ambiguous purity.”
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World

“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”
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“Man’s happiness today consists in “having fun.â€� Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and “taking inâ€� commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies—all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones—and the eternally disappointed ones.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
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