Wish you all a wonderful holiday season !!
This year's theme is based on my favorite book of the year - Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman.
If biography is the art of the singular to illuminate a pattern, Hirschman’s odyssey can be read as a journey with no particular end, the life of an idealist with no utopia because he believed that the voyage of life itself yielded enough lessons to change who we are and what we aspire to be; to require and stay on course toward an abstract destination threatened to deprive the journey of its richest possibilities.
Montaigne's affection for the aphorism, for accumulating quotes, rubbed off on Hirschmann instantly, and he began to stockpile his own, starting with a mantra from Montaigne;
Observe, Observe Perpetually.
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