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“Uw brief uit Siwa viel op mijn grauwe leven neer, als een rozeblaadje op het oppervlak van een troebele beek.”
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“They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.”
― The Road to Oxiana
― The Road to Oxiana
“Het is absoluut geen verdienste wat dan ook te worden.”
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“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”
― Essays og Epistler
― Essays og Epistler
“The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted by different musics and memories of sound, by different thicknesses of walls and densities of traffic, by different means of manufacture and broadcast, by different diets and ear-damaging diseases, by different proportions and preponderances of metal rattling in kitchens, clanging on the streets, or ringing in the ( differently polluted) air above.”
― Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
― Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
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