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#1

“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, class-inequality, democrats, dictatorship, oppression, political, political-system, scientific-socialism, socialism, unity

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#2

“Most cities are like deserts: concrete and steel, dust and ash, rusty detritus in the outskirts, the occasional oasis.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: adultfiction, atmospheric, cityascharacter, darkhumor, desertnoir, financialfiction, literarysatire

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#3

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#4

“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall

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#5

“Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: epic-fantasy, fantasy-readers, inner-power, intuition, mind-magic, self-discovery, spiritual-gifts

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#6

“After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated:
“We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: army, battles, death, determination, family, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, front-line, pilots, soldiers

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#7

“Jane turned toward the source, following the shift in
energy like a current. At the top of the stone steps stood
a man in light summer clothes: a pale blue shirt, neatly
pressed trousers, polished loafers. He looked every inch
the old-money aristocrat. Relaxed posture. Clean-shaven
face. But no one smiled.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

tags: climatic, emotionally-charged, humour, low-self-esteem, profound, relationships, sorrow, tense, toxic, unpredictable

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#8

“Eshra’s arena, dark and vile, like a black mold growing on the skin of the world. Yet oddly beautiful. The longer I stared at those walls, the more beautiful they appeared. Strong. Inviting.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: atmospheric-writing, beautiful-horror, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, gothic-fantasy, immersive-reads, saveable-quote, temptation, worldbuilding

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#9

“Seeing all the kids pick out different books brings a smile to her face.”
― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words

tags: book-joy, book-lovers, kids-reading, library-life, picture-book, read-aloud, storytime

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#10

“Turtle”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

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#11

“some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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#12

“The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: fantasy

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#13

“This is what rolling back women’s rights looks like. It is a brochure produced by the Swedish government’s National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) for newcomers in 2018 with the title “Information for You Who Are Married to a Child.”12”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

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#14

“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

tags: crime, crooks, patter

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#15

“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.”
― Marcel Proust

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