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“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“One of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences.”
― SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
― SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
“The research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control.”
― When the Body Says No
― When the Body Says No
“Oh, the irony. Cognitive biases prevent us from understanding cognitive biases.”
― Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
― Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
“You don’t understand,’ Franz said patiently. ‘It’s not a particular art form, or manner, that interests me, it’s a personality, a view of the artistic gesture, of its situation in society. If you came here tomorrow with a simple sheet of paper, torn from a spiral notebook, on which you’d written “I don’t even know if I want to continue with art at all”, I would exhibit this sheet without hesitation. Yet I’m not an intellectual. But you interest me.”
― The Map and the Territory
― The Map and the Territory
Scheherenata’s 2025 Year in Books
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