Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
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