If ... Australia and Eurasia could have been interchanged ... Eurasians would be ... reduced to ... fragments. Guns, Germs And Steel
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all. Seagull
We can understand one another, but each of us can only interpret himself. Demian
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. Don Quixote
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