“Hierarchies serve an important function. They enable complete strangers to know how to treat one another without wasting the time and energy needed to become personally acquainted.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice. The Trial
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. Book II
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up. Too True to Be Good
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