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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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Nov 16, 2025 03:15PM

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Workingmen of all countries unite!”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

tags: communism, communist-revolution, politics, proletariat, ruling-classic, tremble, unite

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“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: love

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“geognósticas”
― Euclides da Cunha, Os Sertões

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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humour

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“Porque o que estas denunciam — no enterroado do chão, no desmantelo dos cerros quase desnudos, no contorcido dos leitos secos dos ribeirões efêmeros, no constrito das gargantas e no quase convulsivo de uma flora decídua embaralhada em esgalhos — é de algum modo o martírio da terra, brutalmente golpeada pelos elementos variáveis, distribuídos por todas as modalidades climáticas.”
― Euclides da Cunha, Os Sertões

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