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“A hundred years and more before we owned any house in Athens, the farm was our home. It is a pity we left it. Men are better watching the seasons, and putting good into the earth, than running together in cities, where they listen all day to each other's noises and forget the gods.”
― The Last of the Wine
― The Last of the Wine
“A man who thinks himself as good as everyone else will be at no pains to grow better. On the other hand, I might think myself as good as Sokrates, and even persuade other fools to agree with me; but under democracy, Sokrates is there in the Agora to prove me wrong. I want a City where I can find my equals and respect my betters, whoever they are; and where no one can tell me to swallow a lie because it is expedient, or some other man's will.”
― The Last of the Wine
― The Last of the Wine
“There is a labyrinth,' he said, 'in the heart of every man; and to each comes the day when he must reach the center, and meet the Minotaur.”
― The Last of the Wine
― The Last of the Wine
“Do you ever feel that the world's used up?' she said. 'That our father and their fathers had the fat of it, and left us the bones. And when we tell our children that this was how we lived, they won't know what we mean. And the days are growing short again.”
― The Sea Eternal
― The Sea Eternal
“As soon as you can't go back to where you came from, you begin the life in railway lobbies; everything is temporary and you have no reason to plan anything or start anything anew because you're waiting for your train, and nothing can be important besides waiting and chatting with others who are waiting. That train will never come, as everyone who has ever waited for it knows, but you don't think about that until you spend your last ducat, diamond, or dollar.”
― Dvori od oraha
― Dvori od oraha
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