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To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero

by Václav Havel

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“You're not a man, you're a mushroom!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“We allow justly that the Holocaust has permanently altered the consciousness of our time: Why do we not accord the same epistemological mutation in what imperialism has done, and what Orientalism continues to do?”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

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“He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.
"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.
"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.
"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.
"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
"Ashamed of drinking!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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