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S.N.U.F.F.
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People take decisions on the basis of precedents and experience. A human being is simply an instrument for the application of culture to reality.
Decisions
“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“A year or two after emigrating, she happened to be in Paris on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of her country. A protest march had been scheduled, and she felt driven to take part. Fists raised high, the young Frenchmen shouted out slogans condemning Soviet imperialism. She liked the slogans, but to her surprise she found herself unable to shout along with them. She lasted only a few minutes in the parade.
When she told her French friends about it, they were amazed. “You mean you don't want to fight the occupation of your country?” She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison. But she knew she would never be able to make them understand. Embarrassed, she changed the subject.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
When she told her French friends about it, they were amazed. “You mean you don't want to fight the occupation of your country?” She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison. But she knew she would never be able to make them understand. Embarrassed, she changed the subject.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.”
― Adjustment Day
― Adjustment Day
“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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