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Passage of Arms

by Eric Ambler

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Jun 03, 2026 11:28AM

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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“He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

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