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The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

— Paul Claudel

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Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.

The only living societies are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

There is something sadder to lose than life – the reason for living;
Sadder than to lose one's possessions is to lose one's hope.

Woman is the promise that cannot be kept; but it is precisely in this that my mercy consists.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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