“Maybe that's what intimacy was... A sense of dread at what could go wrong, a stifling of fear, a baring of the vulnerable self to the judgement of someone else. The jagged edge of one soul meeting another, tearing and rending, a connection and a diminishment both. All that imperfection, all that friction - it wore down the tread, expanding rather than preserving.”
― Prodigal Son
― Prodigal Son
“Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot - a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there unit someone draws your attention to it.”
― My Ishmael
― My Ishmael
“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The basic speculative impulse, which is to believe whatever best serves the good fortune you are experiencing.”
― A Short History of Financial Euphoria
― A Short History of Financial Euphoria
“Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.”
― A Short History of Financial Euphoria
― A Short History of Financial Euphoria
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