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I’m not one to look back on wanton waste as complete loss—there’s music in everything, even defeat—but
“begin, and cease, and then again begin”
― Dover Beach and Other Poems
― Dover Beach and Other Poems
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current concepts, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.”
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage”
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― John Cage”
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“Every dictator gets rid of the artist first... They burn the books and execute the artist first... Art might do something. It's dangerous.”
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“THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS
When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
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When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
―
Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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