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Extreme restraint is sometimes exercised in pursuit of extreme freedom. If someone could mercilessly quash their very nature for hundreds of thousands of years, then on the one hand, it would be an excruciating existence…but on the other
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“Readers make their own personal connections to words, irrespective of the writer's intentions, and each reader gains something unique.”
― What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
― What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
“Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“Die besten Bücher, stellte er fest, sind die, die einem sagen, was man bereits weiß.”
― 1984
― 1984
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