Lisalena

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Lisalena’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #1)

Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #1) by Hugh Howey

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the wilds of life, those years in a man’s twenties when he shrugs off the shelter of youth and before he has bothered to erect his own. The tent-less years. The bright and blinding years in which men wander as the planets do.

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Lisalena’s Quotes

“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

tags: fool, foolish, wisdom

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“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: addiction, aesthetics, consumerism, photography, society

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