Max Barry

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People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are

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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did

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'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

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All empires fall, eventually

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What was it Like?""What was what like?" he said, although he knew."Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something. A split second of vanishing awareness. A grasping at a shrinking light." "It was like being fucked in the brain