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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.
“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
― Days of Reading
― Days of Reading
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
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