What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.
- Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947)
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Eternity, Henry Brooks Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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- Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eternity
Automobiles and transport, Roland Barthes
I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
- Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)
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- Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Automobiles_and_transport
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