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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

by Vladislav M. Zubok

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irene’s Quotes

“A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.”
― Don DeLillo, Libra

tags: catholicism, religion

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“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

tags: contemplation, fix, horror, protected, world

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“Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
― Karl Marx

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“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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