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the rise of information technology shows just how much information it is possible to have at our fingertips. Hayek describes prices as “a system of telecommunications”; today, we have telecommunications far more precise and powerful that
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
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Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction that Burns Candle at Both Ends
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For readers and authors interested in the very best other-worldly, transported to incredible stories that keep us up at night and constantly coming ba ...more
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