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1 " He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing and he felt a loneliness he'd not known since he was a child and he felt wholly alien to the world although he loved it still. He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and it's beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower. "
― Cormac McCarthy , All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
2 " What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster? "
― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
