To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.
Dans les forêts de SibérieI had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book
Dans les forêts de SibérieYou can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
El coronel no tiene quien le escribaThe clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
Jane Eyre / Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent / Agnes Grey