Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. (John Barth)

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

John Barth

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