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Pol Artola
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“Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful for their happiness.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
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“She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“The typical American preferred the canned version of philosophy found in how-to manuals, but even average Frenchmen and Vietnamese cherished a love of knowledge.”
― The Committed
― The Committed
“Seeing the failures of both comunism and anticomunism, I chose nothing, a synthesis that neither capitalists nor communists could understand. You may think that I'm being a nihilist, but you could not be more wrong. While nihilists thought life was meaningless and rejected all religious and moral principles, I still believed in the principle of revolution. I also believed that nothing was full of meaning - in short, that nothing was actually something. Wasn't that a kind of revolution in itself?”
― The Committed
― The Committed
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