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“I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.”

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The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

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It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

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I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

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There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

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