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“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.”
― Our Man in Havana
― Our Man in Havana
“Sometimes, looking at the map of Great Britain, we are struck by the improbability of the place. That strangely fashioned land with its curious prongs and protuberances, like a slender-waisted old woman soaring on piggyback over the continent of Europe, seems suddenly to acquire the air of an improvisation.”
― The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through The Ages
― The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through The Ages
“the understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
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