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“We leafed through a series of the [1941 Soviet] Front newspaper. I came across the following phrase in a leading article: 'The much-battered enemy continued his cowardly advance.”
― A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
― A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
“Whenever I travel through crowded places, I'm struck by how human beings en masse are so incredibly hideous, while individual humans can be so heartbreakingly beautiful. Congregated: ugly, ubiquitous, and repellent. Individually: nuanced, intricate, beautiful, and unknowable. Fragile, separate, singular...fascinating. This just kills me.”
― Displacement: A Travelogue
― Displacement: A Travelogue
“Every collector is potentially (if not actually) a thief.”
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“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
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“Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee.”
― The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
― The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
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