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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens

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“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, dystopia, fiction, winston-smith

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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Monsignor…you are asking whether I promise God chastity, poverty, and obedience. I heard what you said and my answer is no”
― Denis Diderot, The Nun

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“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: exploration

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