Quote #117

'There is no love that is not an echo.'

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  2. 'There is some reason to fear that the involvement of non-Western peoples in the conflicts of industrial society, long overdue in itself, w…
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  5. 'The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.'
  6. 'Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.'
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  8. 'Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.'

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