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He envied people who could be born, be raised, mature with those around them, have friends, and then settle down in one place with one set of acquaintances, live ordinary and unspectacular, unrisky lives and grow old and be replaced, their
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“In the late 1940s, a dystopian novel based on the notorious horrors of ‘National Socialism’ would probably have been very well-received. But it would have done nothing to shake the complacency of Western intellectuals concerning the system of state terror for which, at the time, so many of them had either a blind spot or a soft spot.”
― Why Orwell Matters
― Why Orwell Matters
“There are hammers in the world that need to pound in nails, and nails that need to be pounded by hammers.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
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