“He lived in friendship beside Vasudeva, and sometimes they would exchange words with each other, few and well-considered words. Vasudeva was no friend of words, Siddhartha seldom succeeded in inducing him to speak.” Siddhartha
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. The Critic as Artist
Why, within Eurasia, were European societies, rather than those of the Fertile Crescent or China or India, the ones that colonized America and Australia, took the lead in technology, and became politically and economically dominant in the modern world? Guns, Germs And Steel
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. Don Quixote
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