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“As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.”

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Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern life. His works often explore themes of personal identity, memory, and time. more

“I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.”

Knows World Way Life Humans Wells I Can Book Ends Use Body Running Can Do Answers Common Acting Nice Trouble Killing Including Cancer Common Sense Cells Being Nice Liver Glands Prostate

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.”

Life Spirit Military Commerce Diminish Defence

Book:Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

Source: Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

“One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.”

Life Shows Law Evolution Degrees Organized Gravity Organisms Disobedience

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced”

Life Doe Use Opportunity Individual Community Groups Movement Diversity Contrary Arise Collectives Uniqueness Conform Being Me Separateness

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.”

Life Made Young Modern Useless Hopeless Isolated Modern Society Uselessness

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!”

People World Life Real Real World

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.”

Life Made Self Helping Seems Individual West Selected Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Fetish

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.”

World Life Water Simple Four Air Land Elements Painful Physical Pain Land And Water Four Elements

Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

“As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.”

Life Art Whole Form Passion Failing Oneself

Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

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