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“Happiness is not good for the economy.
We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Pride…it’s so often an excuse for people to be weak.”
― Foundryside
― Foundryside
“The only way to learn is to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Circe
― Circe
“There is a wonderful line in one of Cicero’s letters to Atticus in which he describes moving into a property and says: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.”
― Dictator
― Dictator
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