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“I’ll let you explain me to myself—that sounds intelligent and fantastic. Don’t worry about offending me—that’s quite impossible. .”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.”
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“man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.)”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral judgments tend to be nonutilitarian? Because, as Greene states in his book, “Our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes, not to maximize our collective happiness.”
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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