The most common occurrence in this world of ours, in these days of stumbling blindly forwards, is to come across men and women mature in years and ripe in prosperity, who, at eighteen, were not just beaming beacons of style, but also and perhaps above all, bold revolutionaries determined to bring down the system supported by their parents and to replace it, at last, with a fraternal paradise, but who are now equally firmly attached to convictions and practices which, having warmed up and flexed their muscles on any of the many available versions of moderate conservatism, become in time, pure egotism of the most obscure and reactionary kind.
--- Jose Saramago
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