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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“What a mess the world is in,” cried the man, reading the news in his paper. “It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

Ippolito Nievo
“Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They”
Ippolito Nievo, Confessions of an Italian

Stephen Batchelor
“I greatly enjoyed these studies. Geshe Rabten communicated the ideas clearly and succinctly, then had us divide into pairs to pick apart in debate the details of what he had just taught. This was an excellent intellectual discipline. It made me aware of how much of my thinking was muddled. Without subjecting one’s ideas to such scrutiny, it is easy and reassuring to cherish opinions that, in the end, are found to rest on the sloppiest of unexamined assumptions. This”
Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

Marcel Proust
“Those who have minds have no regard for birth.”
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

Will Durant
“On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.”
Will Durant, The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI

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