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“The noblest kind retribution is to become not like your enemy,”
― Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
― Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
“We the living planet, Sophie! We the great vessel sailing around a burning sun in the universe. But each and one of us is also a ship sailing through life with a cargo of genes. When we have carried this cargo safely to the next harbor- we have not lived in vain.”
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“There are things that are too big for us humans :
Pain,loneliness,and death, but also beauty, publicity and happiness. For them we created religion. What happens when we lose it? Those things are still too big for us. What is left for us is the poetry of the individual life.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
Pain,loneliness,and death, but also beauty, publicity and happiness. For them we created religion. What happens when we lose it? Those things are still too big for us. What is left for us is the poetry of the individual life.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
“it is a terrible fact, but it is a fact, that few people have the imagination or the moral sensitivity to get very excited about actions which they don't participate in themselves.... and hence about which they feel no personal responsibility”
― Politics Past
― Politics Past
“The outsider never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of the West. The West never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of itself.”
― Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
― Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
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