“Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.”
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“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
― The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
― The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
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