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“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― 1984
― 1984
“People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
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“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
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“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Vanessa’s 2025 Year in Books
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