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"I can't read this book anymore. Tolstoy is an great writer with strong characters, descriptions, and insight into the human conscious, but the story itself bores me. It's long and antiquated." — Sep 04, 2012 03:23PM
"I can't read this book anymore. Tolstoy is an great writer with strong characters, descriptions, and insight into the human conscious, but the story itself bores me. It's long and antiquated." — Sep 04, 2012 03:23PM
“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
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“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
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“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Valis
― Valis
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