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he had already been financially independent

I would be now brainwashed into thinking that uncertainty was something to be found in a casino

His argument was criticized for being rather incomplete.

but because most unseasoned ideas are fragile.

this attribute is universal to all our activities: there is something in us designed to protect our self-esteem.

and no less intellectual than Nero.

the ultimate test of whether you like an author is if you've reread him)

Time is the expert. Or, rather, the temperamental and ruthless Lindy, as we see in the next chapter.

To our great excitement, we had proof after proof that traders had vastly, vastly more sophistication than the formula. And their sophistication preceded the formula by at least a century.

Note that scholars are judged mostly on how many times their work is referenced in other people's work, and thus cliques of people who quote one another are formed (it's an "I quote you, you quote me" type of business).

Two little provincial intellectuals, that was what they were, and that is the dreariest and oddest thing that can exist on earth.

it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breathing nothing but your own solitude

La grande courtisane, la petite sainte.

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real.

Not fear of this responsibility but surrender to the fear is a chief contributor to the subversion of self-esteem.

We are the one species that can formulate a vision of what values are worth pursuing—and then pursue the opposite.

There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

Laughter, when out of place, mistimed, or bursting forth from a disordered state of feeling, may be the most terrible modulation of the human voice.

Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contract a kindness for them.

That little baggage hath witchcraft in her.

In short, the almost torpid creatures of my own fancy twitted me with imbecility, and not without fair occasion.

Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.

The minister felt for the child's other hand, and took it. The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own, pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system. The three formed an electric chain.