"To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default."

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This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

— David Foster Wallace