I recall this phrase of the blessed Miss Flite from Charles Dickens's Bleak House whenever I think of the mighty of this world, indeed of almost all the famous persons invested with power, and ask myself, really, what do you want so much money for?

I recall this phrase of the blessed Miss Flite from Charles Dickens's Bleak House whenever I think of the mighty of this world, indeed of almost all the famous persons invested with power, and ask myself, really, what do you want so much money for? And, by the way, even having sold their souls, they still cannot stop.

They say he sold his soul to the devil. If he did, I don't know what he did with the money

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

I recall this phrase of the blessed Miss Flite from Charles Dickens's Bleak House whenever I think of the mighty of this world, indeed of almost all the famous persons invested with power, and ask myself, really, what do you want so much money for?

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s