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Losing Wonder
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When I make bread, I think of the people who made the wheat grow, I think of profiteers who artificially inflate its price, to the technocrats who ruined the quality of it — not that the new techniques are necessarily bad, but the fact is that they started to work off greed which is certainly an evil, and that most of it exists only because of large concentrations of forces that are full of potential dangers.
I think of those who have no bread, and those who have too much, I think of the earth and the sun that make plants grow. I feel idealistic and materialistic at the same time. The so-called idealist does not see bread, nor the price of bread, and the materialist, for a curious paradox, ignores what that huge and divine thing we call “matter” means.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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I write because the world doesn’t suit me, I create a parallel world, where I can do as I wish. I think most people who write do it for that reason, in order to create something that doesn’t yet exist, a kind of escape, an ideal world.
~ Georges Brassens
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We age when we abandon our life to others, when we no longer want to learn, when we believe we fall in love only at twenty.
