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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― Requiem for a Nun
― Requiem for a Nun
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
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