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”You would marvel if by certain conditions
there should suddenly grow on apple and orange trees, instead of fruit, frogs and lizards, and if roses should begin to breathe the odour of a sweating horse. So do I marvel at you, who have bartered heaven for earth. I do not want to understand you.”
— Jul 27, 2026 11:52PM
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there should suddenly grow on apple and orange trees, instead of fruit, frogs and lizards, and if roses should begin to breathe the odour of a sweating horse. So do I marvel at you, who have bartered heaven for earth. I do not want to understand you.”
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There was no answer. Evidently the watchman had taken shelter from the bad weather and was now asleep somewhere in the kitchen or the greenhouse.
”If I have the courage to fulfil my intention,” thought the old man, “the suspicion will fall on the watchman first of all.”
— Jul 27, 2026 11:49PM
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”If I have the courage to fulfil my intention,” thought the old man, “the suspicion will fall on the watchman first of all.”
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”They’re both equally immoral,” remarked one of the guests, “ because their purpose is the same, to take away life. The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.”
— Jul 27, 2026 11:46PM
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It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before. There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation. They talked among other things of capital punishment.
— Jul 21, 2026 09:43PM
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Al final del día el problema es el capitalismo
— Apr 29, 2026 10:08PM
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