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"Thus, Jews came to be represented disproportionately in left-wing parties, notably in Soviet Russia – so much so that Jewishness came to seem, to lethal effect in the eyes of Nazis and Ukrainian and Polish nationalists, a cosmopolitan bulwark against the ethnically defined community." — May 16, 2025 02:22AM

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“نُفضِل صورة الحبيب في الحلم على صورته في الواقع”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, جماعة الرب

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“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“--Nature and nurture are inextricable; only scientists and psychologists could think otherwise, and we know all about them, don't we?

--We should. We've watched them since they were tribal wizards, yelping around the campfire. ...”
― Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone

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“I will tell you the whole story of my life, and it is a life that truly began only on the day I met you. Before that, there was nothing but murky confusion into which my memory never dipped again, some kind of cellar full of dusty, cobwebbed, sombre objects and people.”
― Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

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“In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked ravishing.”
― Henry Miller, Plexus

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