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Herman Melville
“I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Albert O. Hirschman
“people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.”
Albert O. Hirschman, Development Projects Observed

Sun Ra
“the trouble with the people on this planet is they refuse to think they refuse to believe anything except what they know”
Sun Ra, Prophetika Book One

Cao Xueqin
“When grief for fiction’s idle words More real than human life appears, Reflect that life itself’s a dream And do not mock the reader’s tears.”
Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone: The Dreamer Wakes

Yukio Mishima
“…but now, along this high, rocky road, it was the leaves of cherry trees that predominated. From the bridge on, these lay like fallen red flowers. Some wet leaves, already decaying, had faded to a pink that was the color of the dawn. Why should decay take the color of the dawn?”
Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

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