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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: The Axiom Of Equality, Fatalism
“I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t have a story.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: The Secret of Secrey, Mystery, The Magic of Not Understanding, Quote of the Moment
“There’s only a tiny heartbeat and solitude, bright sunny wall and a sense of no escape. Time that doesn’t move, time that couldn’t be called time. And trapped in the heart of light: the little prisoner, unflinching.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Time, Nihilism, No Exit
“Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it’s there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it’s not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified Field Theory. A secret about a secret.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy
“The pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Idealism, The Ideal, Searching for Perfect Things
“Everyday is the best day if you let it be. You can have mastery over a lot of things but if you don’t have your mind right, none of these things matter.”
— Billy Corgan
Tagged: Good Morning, Think Positive, Quote of the Moment
“Will you tell me the truth, or will you hold up your walls? Will they stay strong, or will they fall?”
— Dependence, Never In The Cards.
Tagged: Emo Lyrics, Walls, Who Are You?, Protecting Your Feelings
“We have become like the most primitive paleolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.”
— Marshall McLuhan, Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication(Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture)
Tagged: Hunting and Gathering in the Digital Age, Data, Information Economics
“I think big data is so powerful that nation states will fight over how much data matters.”
— Eric Schmidt, Alphabet's Eric Schmidt: 'Big data is so powerful, nation states will fight' over it
Tagged: Big Data, Data as the Answer, Quote of the Moment, Hunting and Gathering in the Digital Age, Google, Alphabet, Big Data, Eric Schmidt, Rob Price
“If you want to try to make the world a slightly better place, there’s a lot you can do. But only one thing guarantees an impact. Step away from the simulation. Step away from the argument. Dig yourself out of the rubble. Stop wasting time with how things should be, would be, could be.

Be that thing.”
— Ryan Holiday, Don’t Waste Time Arguing What A Good Man Is. Be One
Tagged: Ethics, How To Be, How A Person Should Be