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“In war,' answered the weaver, 'the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace, the rich make slaves of the poor.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Lying was useful in order not to be killed. Now I would prefer to be killed”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Every person has only one childhood, and instead of being full of hopes or dreams, his had been crushed by the fight for survival. He never once imagined in all his years spent in the cave that a different childhood from the one that had been accorded to him might have been possible.”
― Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

“But long before that eagerly awaited birth, there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance