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In the twentieth century, power announced itself. In the twenty-first, the surest way to spot real power is by its understatement.
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
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“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
― Days of Reading
― Days of Reading
“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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