History does not always repeat itself.

History does not always repeat itself.

No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.

No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to read more

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they read more

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of read more

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
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The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
[Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]

I have no history but the length of my bones.

I have no history but the length of my bones.