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In praise of failure : four lessons in humility by Costic? Br?d??an, 2023.

May 26, 2024 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In praise of failure : four lessons in humility by Costic? Br?d??an, 2023. I just finished this quirky little book (273 p) and am left with more than a few things to think about – birth, death, humility, human frailty, hubris, genocide, madness, disease, senility, poverty and wealth to name a few. He uses the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, History, Obituaries, Politics, Sea Stories, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: birth, books, Death, disease, Emile Cioran, failure, genocide, Hitler, hubris, human frailty, humility, madness, Mahatma Gandhi, Osamu Dazai, philosophy, poverty, Seneca, senility, Simone Wiel, Stalin, Yukio Mashima

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