I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
~ Haruki Murakami
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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
~ Haruki Murakami
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It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
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Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
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No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
~ Milan Kundera
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.
― Walter Benjamin
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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
― Michel Foucault
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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