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Gita al Faro
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La luce, in Gita al Faro, è ciò che la Storia è per la vita umana. In realtà l’intero romanzo è come un lampo che per un istante inonda la foresta. Invece di disperdere l’oscurità, ne lascia una traccia indelebile.
“As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any.”
― Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
― Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
“We do not think that taxation is the solution to rent-seeking; the right way to stop thieves is to stop them from stealing, not to raise their taxes.”
― Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
― Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis
“We would like to see a world in which everyone who can benefit from going to college, and wants to go to college, is able to do so. But we do not accept the basic premise that people are useless to the economy unless they have a bachelor's degree. And we certainly do not think that those who do not get one should be somehow disrespected or treated as second-class citizens.”
― Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
― Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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