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“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Death to the young is more than that undiscovered country; despite its inevitability, it is a place having reality only in song or in other people's grief.”
― Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
― Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter, as witness the pagan elements in medieval Christianity and the evolution of the Russian "KGB" from the czarist secret service that preceded it”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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