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the intro is so interesting, i had no idea this book was so significant in the nazi occupied western europe nor that it was illegal to have

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i only got the czech edition and i really don't like the translation so far😭

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"History doesn't repeat itself. But it rhymes. The promise of history, and the hope of this book, is that we can find the rhymes before it's too late."

"You do look ill, John! (..) Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?"

"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness."

"You do look ill, John! (..) Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?"
"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness."

"It was the sort of idea that might easily take to believing, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge."

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