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l’autre. Il en avait assez de ce Robert, si bon garçon qu’il fût, il était trop lâche et trop petit pour lui ; il n’était pas à sa place en des temps pareils,
Hermann Hesse • Narcisse et goldmund (Esotérisme) (French Edition)
A challenge to herself
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He staggered along up Union Street past the old Grammar School a beautiful ornate property and now a satellite campus of Preston Polytechnic. During the hot summer it had witnessed a college student sit-in protest, the building occupied on an organized twenty-four hour schedule and even now as Bob trudged by, the ancient exterior was still littered
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Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn’t it? Now the people are waiting for something.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
In the United States in 1907, a book entitled Three Acres and Liberty seized the imagination of the reading public. The author, Bolton Hall, began by taking for granted the awkwardness of having to work for someone else, and so told readers that they could regain their freedom by leaving their offices and factories and buying three acres of farmlan
... See moreAlain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)

Government repudiates all responsibility for seeing that he gets bread. But it anxiously accepts all responsibility for seeing that he does not get beer. It passes an Insurance Act to force him to provide himself with medicine; but it is avowedly indifferent to whether he is able to provide himself with meals.