Henry Brooks Adams

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“The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)