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In the 1860s, Americans learned that large-scale complex societies are actually fragile, and that a descent into a civil war can be rapid.
“One doesn't lie down with a lion and get to act surprised if one finds oneself devoured.”
― The Last Days of Night
― The Last Days of Night
“I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,
and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
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and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,
and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
―
“I believe it is worthwhile trying to discover more about the world, even if this only teaches us how little we know.”
― The Last Days of Night
― The Last Days of Night
“The moment you stop bargaining is the last in which you're ever given a thing.”
― The Last Days of Night
― The Last Days of Night
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious….He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― The Last Days of Night
― The Last Days of Night
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