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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The very inquiry into the purpose of life indicates the lack of intelligence in the present; and the man who is fully active—not lost in activities, as most Americans are, but fully active, intelligently, emotionally, fully alive—has fulfilled himself. Therefore, the inquiry into an end is futile, because there is no such thing as an end and a beginning; there is but the continual movement of creative thinking, and what you call problems are the results of your ploughing through this turmoil toward a culmination.
Total Freedom
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
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