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想知道以前的人是怎么打仗的… 那么多诗颂多么豪气冲天我还是想象不出来天险是怎么占据的 城墙上的士兵是如何“自坠如雨”的

Disappointingly lacking in analysis of asian tradition, especially compared w the thorough presentation of christianity / western cultures. It could have been an interesting subject that contributed to the overarching study of crying had elkins been more curious about wholly different perspectives

All around him the American self was reconceiving itself in mechanical terms, but was everywhere running out of control… happiness was selfishness…

if a doll had no back-story, its market value was low. we were our stores, and when we died, if we were very lucky, our immortality would be in another such tale.

Here's where my problems with this book and Dalio's assumptions come to head: how can he simultaneously preach "radical open-mindedness" while claiming "what's true?" and assuming a hierarchical order for which decisions/processes/choices/approaches/perspectives/methods are better than others???

尼采的意思无非是，用生命本身的力量来战胜生命的痛苦…对于痛苦者的最好安慰方法是让他知道 他的痛苦无法安慰

许多人的所谓成熟 不过是被习俗磨去了棱角 变得世故而实际了 那不是成熟 而是精神的早衰和个性的夭亡。真正的成熟 应当是独特个性的形成 真实自我的发现 精神上的结果和丰收

贯穿整本书对于时态的讨论涉及到神学永恒，最后讲的段子又把话题拉回触手可及的日常

玩弄的时态是巧妙，还是取巧？

脱口秀需要入戏…

这就是一个过度自我关注 不爱人怕被爱又渴望爱的人，四处奔逃之时写的书…我由于对自己不友善 对人也很残酷。不是行为上的…我心理上待人太残酷 而又不想压制别人 也根本不想看到别人的改变 不提要求比提要求是更高的要求

爱信不信吧 我就是为了钱 就是为了跑路之前有所积累。我总觉得我要离开 不光去哪不知道 是要从哪离开我也说不清楚

Hotel stands undamaged as a minimum of your genius

Artistic achievement us in large part a function of will; it is rarely a function of character

he thought the notion of discovery and exploration within us was corrupt. It was a notion of conquest. We were defined by collision.

He began to realize that there might be a certain fastidious courtesy and die without a trace love means, nothing, and his entire planet for the tomb

Hungering, one lost the present.

In the vision, one passed through a darkness, unable to distinguish reality from in substantial accident. 100 for absolutes which could never be.

There is always something. That is confession’s nature.. we are the anthithesis from which comes the more powerful synthesis, the truly revolutionary consciousness

Salman rushdie vibes

The general merely a figurehead who occasionally bellowed at his children like one of those dusty lions in the zoo undergoing a midlife crisis

Importance of room and anchoring in place

Strange first person omnipresent

It’s astounding the first time you realize that a stranger has a body the realization that he has a body makes him a stranger it means that you have a body, to you live with us forever and it will spell out the language of your life

Effect of decentralization and welcoming foreign investments

In the silence, leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself

Lack of distinction bt language infused into culture & confucian language

Cultural universality

bc america had undergone fast food revolution, and orthorexia as a response to that trend, is unnecessary to cultures whose food remained “traditional”