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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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travel
future
unrest
machine
civilisation
civilization
science-fiction
soul
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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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grief
futility
depression
hope
dark-history
falling-short
haunted-past
smoke-in-the-eyes
why-the-world-needs-jesus
unrest
pointlessness
bittersweet-memories
sins
heartache
vanity
disappointment
expectations
despair
regrets
nostalgia
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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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independence
judgment-day
uprising
unrest
eden
paradise-lost
morocco
innocence
french
revolution
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