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“Great is the rejoicing that is made in the city by the magistrates and by the parents of all those who obtain a passing grade, for as they are heathens they think that this is both their glory and their paradise.”
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“We accept reality so readily—perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
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“In youth I knew nothing of the taste of sorrow
I liked to climb high towers,
I liked to climb high towers,
To conjure up a bit of sorrow to make new verse.
Now I know only too well the taste of sorrow.
I begin to speak yet pause,
I begin to speak yet pause,
And say instead 'My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
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I liked to climb high towers,
I liked to climb high towers,
To conjure up a bit of sorrow to make new verse.
Now I know only too well the taste of sorrow.
I begin to speak yet pause,
I begin to speak yet pause,
And say instead 'My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
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“For it is not we who know, but rather a certain state of mind in us that knows.”
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“Though we say that we cannot see the future, its conditions lie all around us. They are as if encrypted. We cannot read them because we lack the key (which will be in our hands only when it is too late to use it). But we see their coded fragments and must call them something. Many aspects of our own contemporary culture might be called premonitory shivers: panicky renderings of unreadable messages about the kind of society we are creating.”
― Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
― Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
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