“But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
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at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
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“A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.”
― The Fry Chronicles
― The Fry Chronicles
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