It was strange how both realms bordered on each other, how close together they were! For example, when Lina, our servant girl, sat with us by the living-room door at evening prayers and added her clear voice to the hymn, her washed hands folded on her smoothed-down apron, she belonged with father and mother, to us, to those that dwelled in light and righteousness. But Demian
"The essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Life is like a fire. Flames forgotten by the night on the road, ashes scattered in front of the wind; here, a human life has come and gone.” Samarkand
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder. Man and Superman
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