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“...things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse – hunger, hardship and disappointment being, the unalterable law of life.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Your insensitivity neither lets me live nor die,
Your betrayal lets me neither smile nor cry,
I can't stand this parting of shores,
Be mine or make me yours.”
― Hareem Ch, Another World

“It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“I looked out through the narrow door. The traffic ceaselessly passed; men and women hurried along with set faces. Phantasms of horror, all of them: infernal realms wherein they dwelt. Outside, men lived under the tyranny of things. Their every action was determined by the orders of mere matter, by money, and the tools of their trade and the unthinking laws of habit and convention. But here I seemed to be safe from things, living at a remove from actuality; here where a bearded old man, improbable survival from some other time, indomitably played the music of romance, despite the fact that the phantasms of horror might occasionally drown the sound of it with their clamour.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Bookshop