“Imagine a permanent, shivering gloom, and never a moment without hunger, thirst and exhaustion. Imagine the constant fear of suffering illness or injury.”
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There’s nothing like a stupid, accidental death to remind you of the supreme futility of everything.
You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.
I’ll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason.
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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
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