Join 📚 Christian Champ's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Christian's read, .
“There is no such thing as generosity in the shipping business,” Mr. Juhl said. “There is only a rapid re-pricing of risk, which is exactly why the market is so active.
Viking Raid
Matthew McCleery
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live," Levin said to himself. "In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me." It was an agonizing error, but it was the sole logical result of ages of human thought in that direction. This was the ultimate belief on which all the systems elaborated by human thought in almost all their ramifications rested. It was the prevalent conviction, and of all other explanations Levin had unconsciously, not knowing when or how, chosen it, as anyway the clearest, and made it his own. But it was not merely a falsehood, it was the cruel jeer of some wicked power, some evil, hateful power, to whom one could not submit. He must escape from this power. And the means of escape every man had in his own hands. He had but to cut short this dependence on evil. And there was one means--death.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh-period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no-win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude.
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise