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Reflections and Shadows

by Saul Steinberg

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Sep 28, 2024 01:13PM

“Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.”
― William Timothy Murray, The Bellringer

tags: decline-of-civilization, loss, past, time

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