"If you who own the things people must have could
understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate
causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson,
Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot
know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I”, and cuts
you off forever from the “we”."
— John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
"And I like that author best who shows me my own
world, conditions such as I live in myself, and a story that can engage
my interest and heart as much as my own domestic life does, which is
certainly no paradise but is still on the whole a source of
inexpressible happiness."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
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