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regardless of the historical era or type of government in question, the people or class in power had always exercised that power for their own benefit.
“The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.”
― The Forgotten Garden
― The Forgotten Garden
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
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“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”
― The Forgotten Garden
― The Forgotten Garden
“Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait. ”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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