‘There will always be a sharper sword or a better spear, but if we abandon the virtues we esteem, then we are no better than those who would destroy those things. Indeed, we do their work for them. Hear me, Lenos, we fight against the
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“Oh my God,” she whispered. “Oh my God.” My father chortled. “Hele, my dearest one, God has very little to do with it. This is the work of politicians. I’ve seen their work up close, too close. The result of their work is, in the end, slaughter. And for what? To gain a few more hectares of swamp? Trees? Fields?” This”
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
“If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn’t be a day you could eat.”
― The Silent Corner
― The Silent Corner
“artificial security of the state and all its conventions and institutions”
― Coyote Summer
― Coyote Summer
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Life can sometimes seem hopelessly complex, unpredictable, chaotic. Then a strange order makes itself known.”
― Breathless
― Breathless
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