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Jonny’s Quotes

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

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“There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: fascination, imagination, wonderment

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“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
― George Orwell

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“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: freedom, ironic, rights, war, wwii, yossarian

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