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In the twentieth century, power announced itself. In the twenty-first, the surest way to spot real power is by its understatement.
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.”
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“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
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“I go to seek a great perhaps”
― The General in His Labyrinth
― The General in His Labyrinth
“For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation”
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