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"Excerpt from Discourse on the Origin of Inequality: "The first man who, after fencing off a piece of land, took it upon himself to say 'This belongs to me' and found people simple-minded enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."" — Mar 23, 2026 07:53AM
"Excerpt from Discourse on the Origin of Inequality: "The first man who, after fencing off a piece of land, took it upon himself to say 'This belongs to me' and found people simple-minded enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."" — Mar 23, 2026 07:53AM
“How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions—not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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