McDonald’s breakfast at 7am is austere, the right thing to do. McDonald’s breakfast at 5am is downright decadent, the workers judge you for being eager to the drive thru.
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Replica by Maison Margiela is nice in theory, but the execution fails because the places/scenes chosen are banal in the extreme. Obviously them lasting 2-4 hours is a problem too, but less so.
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I didn’t understand ghost stories until I started looking for traces of a love that was lost forever.
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To madly desire someone you love feels like you’re a gun with an unknown hand playing with the trigger. It’s not exactly pleasant. It’s as if a car crash might spontaneously happen. You pay attention to everything, on edge.
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Words like materialism package too many separate things together. Materialism can be staged as a rejection of the divine, indulgence in the physical, and also the will to collect or covet. All of these have distinct pathos and aims, we need new words…
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I’ve been telling people for years that Jared Kushner is a chad. If it’s true he’s having head of states eliminated and playing spy at this level of exposure then that’s incredible.
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Why did I read Proust at 19? I was too young. Now, as a man of 27 years and 11 months, I can read Proust and understand him completely, having lived a complete life with nothing to look forward to save death.
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