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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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Loitering on Earth potentially meant finding oneself abruptly classed as biologically unacceptable, a menace to the pristine heredity of the race. Once pegged as special, a citizen, even if accepting sterilization, dropped out of history. ...more

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“Quand on se compare à ce qui vous entoure, on s'admire ; mais quand on lève les yeux plus haut, vers les maîtres, vers l'absolu, vers le rêve, comme on se méprise !”
― Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance 3e série. 1852-1854

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“A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

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“elle vient dans mon cabinet m'entretenir de ses chagrins domestiques. Je ne peux la mettre à la porte, mais j'en ai fort envie. Je me suis réservé dans la vie un très petit cercle, mais une fois qu'on entre dedans je deviens furieux, rouge. J'avais”
― Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance 3e série. 1852-1854

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“In a way, he realized, I’m part of the form-destroying process of entropy.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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“Those who advocated Brexit, the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, imagined a British nation-state, though such a thing never existed. There was a British Empire, and then there was Britain as a member of the European Union. The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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