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To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live. When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard
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“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?”
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
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“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its subjects are free from all obligations to it.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
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606 books
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