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"just finished the purgatorio. really enjoyed the end when he is met by beatrice again. virgil should’ve been allowed to stay :-(" — Dec 28, 2025 08:28AM
"just finished the purgatorio. really enjoyed the end when he is met by beatrice again. virgil should’ve been allowed to stay :-(" — Dec 28, 2025 08:28AM
“He said he even wished everybody in the world looked exactly alike. He said you'd keep thinking everybody you met was your wife or your mother or father, and people would always be throwing their arms around each other wherever they went, and it would look 'very nice'.”
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“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."
"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”
― Cat’s Cradle
"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”
― Cat’s Cradle
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