“Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.”
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 1, The World We Have, p. 22.
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Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair.
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[Introduction à l'histoire universelle, Michelet, Jules, Hachette, 1843, 9]
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Introduction, p. 13
The Value of Science (1905)