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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”
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people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”
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“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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“The true hero in the Black Swan world is someone who prevents a calamity and, naturally, because the calamity did not take place, does not get recognition—or a bonus—for it. I will be taking the concept deeper in Book VII, on ethics, about the unfairness of a bonus system and how such unfairness is magnified by complexity.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Sumit’s 2025 Year in Books
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