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— Pliny the Elder"....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle."
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.
— Anthony Storr
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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