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I had the feeling the world was disintegrating around meEverything became ugly, distorted, as if someone did it on purpose……to try to make me regret it less…and...

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Fifth Deadly Sin: ENVY or VAINGLORY (acedia, id est anxietas seu taedium cordis, et conodoxia, id est jactancia seu vana Gloria). This is Mr Everybody, the man ...

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Except for working for the government …, I don’t think I ever worked anywhere where I was caught in a trap. I know someone who worked in a Navy office, this hug...

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And I notice two days before the show opens that Balcerowicz of Poland and Becker of the University of Chicago continue to agree: the markets are reviving, back...

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And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden towerAnd when he knew for certain only drowning men...

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It’s nearly ten years since I left the shade of the coconut palms. Pounding the asphalt, my imprisoned feet recall their former liberty, the caress of warm sand...

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I could not help reflecting how much more pleasure it must give one to protect life than to take it away; and how much happier [the fisher] must be in catching ...

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Apparently the red spots on Jupiter are centuries old hurricanes W.G. Sebald, For Years Now (London: Short Books, 2001), 18.

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