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“As I have told my friends in the past, time is a concept foreign to Ideas,” he said in a small but clear voice. “‘A while’ thus lies outside my understanding.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
“My father called swimming “the elixir of life,” and certainly it seemed to be so for him: he swam daily, slowing down only slightly with time, until the grand age of ninety-four. I hope I can follow him, and swim till I die.”
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
“Some of the most influential novels of recent years, by Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard, take the method of self-conscious first-person testimony to a new level. Their more extreme admirers will tell you that imagination and invention are outmoded contrivances; that to inhabit the subjectivity of a character unlike the author is an act of appropriation, even colonialism; that the only authentic and politically defensible mode of narrative is autobiography.”
― The End of the End of the Earth: A Provocative and Necessary Look at the Human Condition and Our Changing World
― The End of the End of the Earth: A Provocative and Necessary Look at the Human Condition and Our Changing World
“It is not the purpose of this book to propose remedies for rent-seeking: the implications of my analysis for business and public policy, both of which should promote the rents that arise from innovative differentiation and eliminate the ones that are the result of the abuse of political institutions, will be the task of a successor volume.”
― The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
― The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
“In dialogue, the path towards God Q. (girl): I see God in other people. Where do you see God? A. (Pope Francis): I try, I try . . . to meet him in every circumstance of life. I try . . . I find him in my reading of the Bible, I find him in the celebration of the Sacraments, I try to find him in prayer and also in my work, in people, in various people . . . Above all I find him in the sick: the sick do me good, because I wonder, when I am with a sick person, why him and not me?”
― Happiness in This Life
― Happiness in This Life
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Valentin’s 2025 Year in Books
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