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Adonis
“I love, I love beauty
and in it I worship my follies,
the ones I found on my own,
and the ones to which I was led”
Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

Georges Bernanos
“On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l'on n'admet pas d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure.”
George Bernanos

J.B. Morton
“One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.”
J.B. Morton

George Orwell
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
George Orwell, 1984

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges

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