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But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only one minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until finally it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble ...more
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Amitav Ghosh
“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.”
Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

Amitav Ghosh
“There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.”
Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

Amitav Ghosh
“I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.”
Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire

Amitav Ghosh
“we, who have always thought of joy as rising . . . feel the emotion that almost amazes us when a happy thing falls.”
Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“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).”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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