“- How many days will my suffering last, Portuga? 40 Days. Will it go away after 40 days? No, you'll used to it."" My Sweet Orange Tree
In this base world, full of poverty and misery, for the first time I thought a ray of sunshine had shone on my life. But alas, it was not a sunbeam, rather it was only a transient beam, a shooting star, which appeared to me in the likeness of a woman or an angel. The Blind Owl
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases. Guns, Germs And Steel
Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them. Fragment
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