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The Paris Review Issue 253 (The Paris Review, #253)

by Emily Stokes

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Kurt’s Quotes

“Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.”
― David Wong

tags: aphorisms, civilization, gullibility

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“It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: certainty, deceit, falsehood, gossip, honesty, humility, information, know-it-alls, law, libel, lies, misinformation, moral, mystery, not-knowing, policy, principle, propaganda, rule, silence, sincerity, slander, truth, uncertainty, uncertainty-principle

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“We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere.”
― Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

tags: albert-camus, letters-to-a-german-friend, war

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“Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.”
― Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

tags: democracy, dictatorship

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“I want to lay down, but these countries are like uncles who touch you when you're young and asleep. Look at all these borders foaming at the mouth with bodies broken and desperate...I spent days and nights in the stomach of the truck; I did not come out the same. Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

tags: borders, immigration, refugees

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