“No one ever arrives home,” she said amiably. “But when the paths of friends meet, the whole world looks like home for a while.” Demian
It has always seemed strange to me ... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. Cannery Row
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Histoire d'un crime
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