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This is the book I would have wanted to read as a young student of humanities and sociology. Essential reading for everybody who is interested in the development of society. After nation states, what is next?
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“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
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“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
― Autumn Leaves
― Autumn Leaves
“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards away; there is a moment for doing things and entering a possible happiness, and this moment lasts a few days, sometimes a few weeks or even a few months, but it happens once and one time only, and if you want to return to it later it's quite simply impossible. There's no more place for enthusiasm, belief, and faith, and there remains just gentle resignation, a sad and reciprocal pity, the useless but correct sensation that something could have happened, that you just simply showed yourself unworthy of this gift you had been offered.”
― La carte et le territoire
― La carte et le territoire
“The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”
― No Way Out
― No Way Out
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