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Top 30 Elan Mastai Quotes (2025 Update)

Elan Mastai Quote: “The problem with knowing people too well is that their words stop meaning anything and their silences start meaning everything.”

1. “The problem with knowing people too well is that their words stop meaning anything and their silences start meaning everything.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “Life is defined mostly by how you handle failure.”

2. “Life is defined mostly by how you handle failure.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “When you invent the car, you also invent the car accident. When you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash.”

3. “When you invent the car, you also invent the car accident. When you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “People talk about grief as emptiness, but it’s not empty. It’s full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you’d have.”

4. “People talk about grief as emptiness, but it’s not empty. It’s full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you’d have.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “When you jump off a cliff, falling can look a whole lot like flying, for a while anyway.”

5. “When you jump off a cliff, falling can look a whole lot like flying, for a while anyway.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “That’s what love can do for you, if you let it – build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn’t matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars, just prove you earned it. And so I stop trying to keep these versions of myself apart. Instead, I make us whole.”

6. “That’s what love can do for you, if you let it – build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn’t matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars, just prove you earned it. And so I stop trying to keep these versions of myself apart. Instead, I make us whole.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “My mom once told me that’s the secret of life. We all think we’re frauds. Everybody’s winging it.”

7. “My mom once told me that’s the secret of life. We all think we’re frauds. Everybody’s winging it.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “Every person you meet introduces the accident of that person to you. What can go right and what can go wrong. There is no intimacy without consequence. Which.”

8. “Every person you meet introduces the accident of that person to you. What can go right and what can go wrong. There is no intimacy without consequence. Which.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “We must suffer fools gladly, otherwise how can we help them stop being fools?”

9. “We must suffer fools gladly, otherwise how can we help them stop being fools?”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “Is there a word for a thing you know you absolutely shouldn’t do, that would be wrong in every way that matters to you, but that you’re pretty sure you’re going to do anyway? Or is that just – human? I.”

10. “Is there a word for a thing you know you absolutely shouldn’t do, that would be wrong in every way that matters to you, but that you’re pretty sure you’re going to do anyway? Or is that just – human? I.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “There’s no such thing as the life you’re supposed to have.”

11. “There’s no such thing as the life you’re supposed to have.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “Anyone can overthrow a government. It’s ruling that’s hard.”

12. “Anyone can overthrow a government. It’s ruling that’s hard.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else’s dreams.”

13. “Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else’s dreams.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “The brain is a soupy lightning storm swirling and crackling in three pounds of wet meat. Do.”

14. “The brain is a soupy lightning storm swirling and crackling in three pounds of wet meat. Do.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “You keep working. You keep trying. You keep failing. Until one day in the distant future, that for me is the distant past, the failure ends. That’s all success feels like. It’s not triumphant. It’s not glorious. It’s just a relief. You finally stopped failing.”

15. “You keep working. You keep trying. You keep failing. Until one day in the distant future, that for me is the distant past, the failure ends. That’s all success feels like. It’s not triumphant. It’s not glorious. It’s just a relief. You finally stopped failing.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “What if every creative idea that someone has is unconsciously borrowed from that person’s experiences in another reality? Maybe all ideas are plagiarized without us knowing it, because they come to us through some cryptic and unprovable reality slippage?”

16. “What if every creative idea that someone has is unconsciously borrowed from that person’s experiences in another reality? Maybe all ideas are plagiarized without us knowing it, because they come to us through some cryptic and unprovable reality slippage?”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “That’s all science is. A collection of the best answers we have right now. It’s always open to revision. Yesterday’s fact is today’s question and tomorrow has an answer we don’t know yet.”

17. “That’s all science is. A collection of the best answers we have right now. It’s always open to revision. Yesterday’s fact is today’s question and tomorrow has an answer we don’t know yet.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “I try to formulate a plan but my thoughts are a toxic fizz of regret, panic, and self-loathing, as if someone shook up a bottle of carbonated soda and uncapped it inside my brain.”

18. “I try to formulate a plan but my thoughts are a toxic fizz of regret, panic, and self-loathing, as if someone shook up a bottle of carbonated soda and uncapped it inside my brain.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.”

19. “We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “This is how you discover who someone is. Not the success. Not the result. The struggle. The part between the beginning and the ending that is the truth of life.”

20. “This is how you discover who someone is. Not the success. Not the result. The struggle. The part between the beginning and the ending that is the truth of life.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “They were married within a year and slotted themselves into their respective lifelong roles – my father was the lighthouse, my mother the keeper who wound the clockwork, polished the lenses, and swept all those rocky steps. My.”

21. “They were married within a year and slotted themselves into their respective lifelong roles – my father was the lighthouse, my mother the keeper who wound the clockwork, polished the lenses, and swept all those rocky steps. My.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “Bland friendliness is easier than spending even one joule of energy formulating an opinion on someone fundamentally irrelevant to you.”

22. “Bland friendliness is easier than spending even one joule of energy formulating an opinion on someone fundamentally irrelevant to you.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are like that too.”

23. “I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are like that too.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “She will become our driving political operator. You might not think a career in academia would prepare her for that, but it turns out that academics are goddamn crazy and getting anything done in the university environment is so convoluted and asinine and theatrical that my mom will find actual politics to be kind of relaxing in comparison.”

24. “She will become our driving political operator. You might not think a career in academia would prepare her for that, but it turns out that academics are goddamn crazy and getting anything done in the university environment is so convoluted and asinine and theatrical that my mom will find actual politics to be kind of relaxing in comparison.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “Is it possible to think outside the box of your ideology? Or is ideology the box and you just have to work at opening it?”

25. “Is it possible to think outside the box of your ideology? Or is ideology the box and you just have to work at opening it?”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “That’s what love can do for you if you let it: build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn’t matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars just prove you earned it.”

26. “That’s what love can do for you if you let it: build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn’t matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars just prove you earned it.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “I want there to be nothing in me that isn’t light and pure and good. But of course that’s not real. That’s what happens when you’re a statue in a city square, stripped of any human adornment that can’t be cast in bronze.”

27. “I want there to be nothing in me that isn’t light and pure and good. But of course that’s not real. That’s what happens when you’re a statue in a city square, stripped of any human adornment that can’t be cast in bronze.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “You believe what you do.”

28. “You believe what you do.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “When you’re young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of them contradict each other.”

29. “When you’re young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of them contradict each other.”

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Elan Mastai Quote: “My father was a graduate student in physics and my mother noticed him around campus, always wearing mismatched socks. She wanted to know if it was a fashion choice above her station or the mark of someone with more important things on his mind. One day, she walked up and handed him a gift – a box of one hundred identical socks. He had no idea who she was. They were married within a year.”

30. “My father was a graduate student in physics and my mother noticed him around campus, always wearing mismatched socks. She wanted to know if it was a fashion choice above her station or the mark of someone with more important things on his mind. One day, she walked up and handed him a gift – a box of one hundred identical socks. He had no idea who she was. They were married within a year.”

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