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He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood; and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.


“Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World

“In a sense, the market is the institutionalisation of individualism and non-responsibility.”
― Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
― Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

“All these grotesque incongruities between the richness of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough for the lad Grenouille to doubt that language made any sense at all;”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“a guard was like a sphinx. He functioned not by some deed, but rather by his mere bodily presence.”
― The Pigeon
― The Pigeon

“The best way to reduce any environmental impact is not to recycle more, but to produce and dispose of less” The”
― Cradle to Cradle
― Cradle to Cradle

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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more

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