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In 1723, a London physician called Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733) published an economic tract (unusually but charmingly written in verse) titled The Fable of the Bees. This proposed that – contrary to centuries of religious and moral
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“Problems begin the moment we're born. We're born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That's inevitable. But what can you do? That's what it is to live.”
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“Pain is what gives rise to meditation. It has nothing to do with age, let alone beards.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.”
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“You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
Ayda’s 2025 Year in Books
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