Sublime

Ernest Hemingway opens his book The Sun Also Rises with a Bible verse: “One generation passeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and resteth to the place where he arose.” It was this passage, his editor would say, that “contained all the wisdom of the ancient world.”

a universe made dangerous by the gift of free will,

twenty years later, under King Louis Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure.

his guardians, who were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

shouted, in support of Pasquale: Comrade, without

stava cantando a bassa voce una ninnananna alla bambola di pezza che teneva in braccio amorevolmente. E dalaloo… E dalaleddra… Lu lupu si mangiò la picoreddra…

Kaiser Josef Wrote Don Giovanni Syndrome (Phil Paine): we often give rulers credit for things that just happened when they were alive. If you asked the oligarchs of any declining place, they will tell you that they and their ancestors were the source of all wealth and creativity, when in fact the elites took over as the growth and newness were falt

In the fable “The Golden Key,” the Old Man of the Earth shows a young boy the reality of the world, that there is no progress without risk.