Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
~ Milan Kundera
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Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked. Like this.
~ Haruki Murakami
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The main point about liberalism is that it wants to go elsewhere, not to stand still.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
~ Milan Kundera
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure.
~ William Faulkner
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera
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By reimagining college-admissions criteria, James Conant hoped to spark a social and cultural revolution. The age of the Well-Bred Man was vanishing. The age of the Cognitive Elite was here.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
― Walter Benjamin
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
― Michel Foucault
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