"Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation."

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What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

— Gustave Flaubert