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“And suddenly I realise that civilisation is suffering from a severe vitamin deficiency because it cannot draw its strength directly from nature, eternally young and eternally true. Humanity has lost itself in the unnatural and in speculation. Only now do I grasp the real meaning and the world-transforming element in the saying: “Become as the peasants, understand the sacredness of the earth.”
― A Woman in the Polar Night
― A Woman in the Polar Night
“Just imagine what will happen when the lines to Belgium and Germany are completed and connected up with their railways! I feel as if the mountains and forests of all countries were advancing on Paris. Even now, I can smell the German linden trees; the North Sea’s breakers are rolling against my door.”
― The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
― The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
“The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.”
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
“Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.”
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
“Vienna is certainly the grandest city I have ever seen. All along the Ringstrasse colossal buildings proclaim an imperial past – the parliament, the Palace of Justice, the Natural History Museum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the opera house, the Burgtheater and above all the Hofburg, with its 2,600 rooms. They all look much the same – mighty piles of granite and sandstone with warlike statuary crowded along the roofs and pediments. A Martian coming to earth would unhesitatingly land at Vienna, thinking it the capital of the planet.”
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
William’s 2025 Year in Books
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