Literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. Guns, Germs And Steel
“We were all big. Big and sad people who had their share of the same sadness, with little bits and pieces.” My Sweet Orange Tree
After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die. Seagull
Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been. Book IV
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