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According to their measure, they have fulfilled Keats’ aspiration, they do live a life in which the emphasis lies on sensation rather than on thought: for the state which he then struggled to describe was that ideal state of pure
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“People driven by emotion, she had convinced herself, were less content than those whose lives were calculated.”
― The Girl from Krakow
― The Girl from Krakow
“monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“He did not wander aimlessly, though he never knew which village would be his next port of call. He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.”
― The City and the Stars
― The City and the Stars
“It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.”
― The City and the Stars
― The City and the Stars
“However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.”
― The City and the Stars
― The City and the Stars
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