It doesn’t do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to,” Clara said. “It’s just a waste.

What I mean is that we were ambitious, in a way that would have been unusual a generation before, to serve gentlemen who were, so to speak, furthering the progress of humanity.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.

...Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution.

Written By Thomas Pynchon

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