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Counterrevolution and Revolt

by Herbert Marcuse

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“all success cloaks a surrender”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
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― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition

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― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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