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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

by Jan Karski

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Oct 07, 2025 07:05AM

“Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self?”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

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“There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

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“What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children

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“A woman who is alone in the world is ever regarded with suspicion.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

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“I tell you, if the whole world, and everybody in it, was as weak and frightened as I am now, and as unsure of everything – unsure of themselves, their place in the scheme of things – it’d be a far better place. No more enthusiasts, no heroic deeds, no commitment, just general all-round pusillanimity! I’d be content to live on this earth for all eternity, if somebody’d just show me a corner of it where there’s not always room for heroics. ‘General pusillanimity’ – yes, that’s our remedy for all ills...”
― Erofeev Venedikt, Moskva-Petushki

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