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Richard Adams
“Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down
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“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
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Italo Calvino
“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.

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Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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