“She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A time will come, he had said to the girls, when you too will discover what this word karuna means, and from that moment on, your lives will never again be the same.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
“There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
“I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.”
― Flood of Fire
― Flood of Fire
“we, who have always thought of joy as rising . . . feel the emotion that almost amazes us when a happy thing falls.”
― The Hungry Tide
― The Hungry Tide
“Our human race is affected by a chronic underestimation of the possibility of the future straying from the course initially envisioned (in addition to other biases that sometimes exert a compounding effect). To take an obvious example, think about how many people divorce. Almost all of them are acquainted with the statistic that between one-third and one-half of all marriages fail, something the parties involved did not forecast while tying the knot. Of course, "not us," because "we get along so well" (as if others tying the knot got along poorly).”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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