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My mother said no: “I don’t want to live there.” Hardly surprising, as far as I was concerned. My brother, who had done all the footwork, had found all the missing documents, had filled out endless forms (it is unimaginable, until you have
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“When a society faces reorganization along radical lines, the first storm-signals will always come from the deserters from the party yielding ground. It has never been slaves who have begun successful struggles against slavery; the deserters from the feudal state were the individuals who a hundred and fifty years ago, laid the ideological foundation for the middle-class revolt.”
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
“What I mean when I say “Vilnius” is the strength of a people to be the first to vote to leave the Soviet Union in 1991, and the persistence to make that vote mean something.”
― Love Songs of the Revolution
― Love Songs of the Revolution
“Music and night follow the same route to the human heart. In music and in alcoholic intoxication we are carried downward to our level of existence at the time we lay in the cradle and adored ourselves. Intoxication, night, and music — each is a person who casts himself to earth and shrieks his own name.”
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
“find a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition confirming that home-cooked meals actually make people feel better than indulgent meals eaten at a restaurant.”
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
“The Worldwatch Institute’s 2011 State of Consumption report also found that wealth won’t help you on your way to having a satisfying life and new research shows that there’s even a cut-off point for the amount of income we need to be content. A combined study from the Universities of Warwick and Minnesota found that there was a basic threshold beyond which any extra money added nothing to levels of well-being. The figure is around 197,000 DKK a year (£22,000 or $36,000), after which we apparently get wealthier but less contented.”
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
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