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Their aim on return from the front was to place their art at the service of the revolution, or at least to struggle for a more just society, believing that democracy could be born from the ruins of the Reich.
“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.”
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.”
― Revelations of Divine Love
― Revelations of Divine Love
“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
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