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"Is there life on Mars?" "No, not there either."
So they lived. They didn't sleep together, but they had children.
Cows wandered through the streets.... Vegetables grew chiefly in cans, and stream-beds and caƱons glittered with these omnipresen ...
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
I have given the best of myself and the best work of my life to help obtain political freedom for women, knowing that upon this re ...
Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living.
The night is cold and delicate and full of angels
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely smal ...
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air- conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the ...
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far ...
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