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We can never eliminate all unhappiness, and alleviating depression does not assure happiness, but I hope the knowledge contained in this book will help to eliminate some pain for some people.
“The leaping of one fish would never disturb the flow of the river.”
― Berserk, Vol. 13
― Berserk, Vol. 13
“When you read, you never see the letters; you see the things the letters are about, like a forest, a house turned into a library, or a pharmacy. Books serve as mirrors and windows--they're full of images.”
― El libro salvaje
― El libro salvaje
“Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.”
― Child of God
― Child of God
“He felt himself, in a way, torn between two worlds: a solid, bourgeois world where ultimately everything was ordered and rational, as he was accustomed to from home, and an untrammelled one full of darkness, blood, and undreamt-of surprises.”
― The Confusions of Young Törless
― The Confusions of Young Törless
“Sam Harris argues convincingly that it’s impossible to successfully think of what you’re going to think next. The takeaway from chapters 2 and 3 is that it’s impossible to successfully wish what you’re going to wish for. This chapter’s punchline is that it’s impossible to successfully will yourself to have more willpower. And that it isn’t a great idea to run the world on the belief that people can and should.”
― Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
― Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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