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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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