"There, Master Niketas," Baudolino said, "when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one." Baudolino
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult? Demian
“When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. Book IV
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