Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can&#39;t wait that long.

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

If indeed "elegance is frigid," it can as well be described as filthy. There is no denying, at any rate, that among the elements of the elegance in which we take such delight is a measure of the unclean, the unsanitary.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

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