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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.
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tragedy
triviality
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
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What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.
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money
wealth
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triviality
material-goods
things
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Alain de Botton |
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Percebeu entao o que Liz lhe tinha dado, aquilo que teria de procurar readquirir se alguma vez regressasse a Inglaterra: era o interesse pelas pequenas coisas, a fe na vida comum, a simplicidade que fazia a pessoa esfarelar um pedaco de pao para dentro de uma saco de papel, ir ate a praia e da-lo as gaivotas. Era este respeito pelas coisas triviais que a ele nunca lhe fora permitido possuir;
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triviality
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John le Carré |