“There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else.”
― Mortality
― Mortality
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
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