“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”
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“Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”
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“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
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