Tag: Leo Tolstoy
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Today we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery [the press] that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. — Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (more…)
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I have been a stranger in a strange land. — Exodus 2: 22
It is very hard, dear brother, to live in a foreign land. — Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks
If I were asked what I considered the greatest invention in my lifetime I would have no hesitation in replying that it is the e-reader. Had my grandfather, for example, wished to own the collected works of Plato, he would have had to have taken time off from his work as a film developer for Paramount Films, travelled on the underground from his flat in Ealing, (more…)