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“They vomit their gall and call it a newspaper.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche“ No waves of native grain ever stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of North America. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Variant translation: Your question, Mr. Examining Magistrate, as to whether I am a house-painter — although you did not ask a question at all, you made a statement — typifies exactly the kind of proceedings that are being instituted against me.”
The Trial • Franz Kafka“Meditation and water are wedded for ever.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville“Let a man be of good cheer about his soul, who has cast away the pleasures and ornaments of the body as alien to him, and rather hurtful in their effects, and has followed after the pleasures of knowledge in this life; who has adorned the soul in her own proper jewels, which are temperance, and justice, and courage, and nobility, and truth—in these arrayed she is ready to go on her journey to the world below, when her time comes. You, Simmias and Cebes, and all other men, will depart at some time or other. Me already, as the tragic poet would say, the voice of fate calls.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato