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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
― Immanuel Kant

“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”
― Sigmund Freud

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations