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Radetzky March (1932)
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That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.
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There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.
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A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Joseph Roth
Born:
September 2, 1894
Died:
May 27, 1939
(aged 44)
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