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“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
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“The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.”
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
― Doctor Sleep
― Doctor Sleep
“If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning.”
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
“Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.”
― Brave New World Revisited
― Brave New World Revisited
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