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Thomas Mann
“He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity—proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive—a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Timothy Snyder
“When exactly was the “again” in the president’s slogan “Make America great again”? Hint: It is the same “again” that we find in “Never again.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Haruki Murakami
“Noboru Wataya,
Where are you?
Did the wind-up bird
Forget to wind your spring?”
Haruki Murakami

Anne Frank
“I don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!”
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Karen Joy Fowler
“My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip.”
Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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