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Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.
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civilisation
civilization
future
machine
science-fiction
soul
travel
unrest
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E.M. Forster |
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There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.
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bittersweet-memories
dark-history
depression
despair
disappointment
expectations
falling-short
futility
grief
haunted-past
heartache
hope
nostalgia
pointlessness
regrets
sins
smoke-in-the-eyes
unrest
vanity
why-the-world-needs-jesus
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Joseph Conrad |
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"There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at this rate." (But it's hard to feign innocence if you've eaten the apple, he reflected.) "And it looks to me as if it is going to go on, because the French aren't going to give in, and certainly the Arabs aren't, because they can't. They're fighting with their backs the the wall." "I thought maybe you meant you expected a new world war," he lied. "That's the least of my worries. When that comes, we've had it. You can't sit around mooning about Judgement Day. That's just silly. Everybody who ever lived has always had his own private Judgment Day to face anyway, and he still has. As far as that goes, nothing's changed at all."
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eden
french
independence
innocence
judgment-day
morocco
paradise-lost
revolution
unrest
uprising
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