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“This mood makes itself felt everywhere, politically, socially, and philosophically. We are living in what the Greeks called the καιρóς (Kairos) – the right time – for a “metamorphosis of the gods,” i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.”
― The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
― The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
“All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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