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The starting point of history can always be shifted, such that one side is always instigating, the other always justified in response.
“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Primo Levi added that the critical point can be reached “not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.”
― Fascism: A Warning
― Fascism: A Warning
“We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes...”
― L'ordine del tempo
― L'ordine del tempo
“Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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