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“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
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“there is only one true heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it”
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“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
“The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
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clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
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