"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way."

-- Isabelle Eberhardt

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“There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”
“Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.”
“[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.”
“They say behind mountains are more mountains.”
“Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.”
“The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
“I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'”
“History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.”

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