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Moral: Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before. This represents the first half of our favorite dictum: “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.”
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
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“...what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live? But what room is there for you to ascend, you with your high-flown ways and lofty talk? Come down, that you may ascend, ascend even to God...”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“¿Que esperabas? - suspiró Úrsula -. El tiempo pasa.
- Así es - admitió Aureliano-, pero no tanto.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Así es - admitió Aureliano-, pero no tanto.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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