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no one knows what’s really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.”
“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil, and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting syllables in unison. p. 100”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“Monster, I do smell all horse piss, at which
my nose is in great indignation. (IV, 1, lines 223-224)”
― The Tempest
my nose is in great indignation. (IV, 1, lines 223-224)”
― The Tempest
“What I mean is," Robert said nervously, "the whole idea of The Wave is that the people in it have to support it. If we're really a community, we all have to agree.”
― The Wave
― The Wave
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