Silva Bashllari

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. He knew that his sole means of security against people was to hide his wounds from them, and instinctively he tried to do this, but now he felt incapable of keeping up the unequal struggle.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remember what others forgot, more essential (...) than ever before.”
― Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

“It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“While the Sharing Economy is often presented as a diverse set of commercial and non-commercial initiatives around the world (from tool-exchange co ops to pet-sitting and so on), this presentation is a bit misleading. The Sharing Economy is almost entirely a small number of technology firms backed by large amounts of venture capital.”
― Tom Slee, What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy