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“[Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities.”
― Smiley's People
― Smiley's People
“Dang...huh, what's up with all these books?”
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“Sometimes he remembered how he had heard that soldiers in war when entrenched under the enemy’s fire, if they have nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the more easily to bear the danger. To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs. ‘Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it’s all the same—only to save oneself from it as best one can,’ thought Pierre. ‘Only not to see it, that dreadful it!”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
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