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the new car or house you want will only make you happy for a while. Once the initial excitement wears off, you’ll move on to crave the next exciting thing. This phenomenon is known as ‘hedonic adaptation.’
Hedonic Adaptation
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
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“Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.”
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The best of all were never to be born.”
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“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
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“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”
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Mortisha00’s 2025 Year in Books
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