Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 29 (See also: Rene Girard)
Leviathan (1651)
“Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?”
— T. H. White, book The Book of Merlyn
The Book of Merlyn (1977)
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