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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.”
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
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