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schwieriger, je mehr man mit Gütern belastet ist. Hier droht das Schicksal jener Spanier unter Cortez, die in der »traurigen Nacht« die Last des Goldes, von dem sie sich nicht trennen wollten, zu Boden zog. Dafür ist auch der Reichtum, der
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“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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