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The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present

by David S. Landes

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Jan 20, 2024 06:23AM

“Looking back at a repetition of empty days, one sees that monuments have sprung up. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie: when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

tags: habit, happiness, life

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“As for Thomas, the longer he lived, the less he cared for the world.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

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“The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

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“I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me–but I went away– and wanted to shoot myself.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals

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“The furniture would have missed you?

Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

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