Noam Lerner

“The distinction between two selves is applied to the measurement of well-being, where we find again that what makes the experiencing self happy is not quite the same as what satisfies the remembering self. How two selves within a single body can pursue happiness raises some difficult questions, both for individuals and for societies that view the well-being of the population as a policy objective.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“We will have set her free … to struggle for survival along with everyone else. But that is better than the illusion of safety in a gilded cage, is it not?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“someone must suffer, if the rest are to enjoy luxury.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky