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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.
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René Descartes
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
René Descartes

Milan Kundera
“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.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Bertrand Russell
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
Bertrand Russell

Douglas Adams
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Marcel Proust
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
Marcel Proust

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