“For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. I believe really great men must experience great sadness in the world.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one’s never thought of does.”
― Doomsday Book
― Doomsday Book
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Money is accordingly a system of mutual trust, and not just any system of mutual trust: money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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