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“Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.”
Autumn Leaves • Andre Gide“ Why is that you white people developed so much cargo ... but we black people had little cargo? ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Time does not tarry ever ... but change and growth is not in all things and places alike.”
The Fellowship of the Ring • J.R.R Tolkien“For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.”
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman • Stefan Zweig“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