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Max Havelaar: Of de koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy (Dutch Edition) by Multatuli

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Hierover evenwel klaag ik niet. Maar Uwe Excellentie heeft gesanktioneerd: HET STELSEL VAN MISBRUIK VAN GEZAG, VAN ROOF EN MOORD, WAARONDER DE ARME JAVAAN GEBUKT GAAT, en dáárover klaag ik.

Story of the Eye

by Georges Bataille

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Idwer’s Quotes

“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me”
― Charles Darwin

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“The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach:
The Ogre cannot master speech.

About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Poems

tags: drivel, ogres

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“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: emotions, will

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“And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!”
― Omar Khayyâm, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!”
― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger