“Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist
“and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine:”
— Thomas Hobbes, book Leviathan
The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 140
Leviathan (1651)
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