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“A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas.”

Ivan just showed up in court. Shit is about to get real ‼️

“If there were no devil, man would create him, and he would create him in his own image and likeness.”
“Just as he created God.”

“...the pressures of the transitory affect the monumental itself: the only monument that counts is the one already imagined as a ruin."

“…The silent acquiescence of the Western citizen: we live in comfort while our governments rain down bombs from above at tiny dots of people in countries far away from us, people we will never know or meet, whose grief we will never know.”

“He who tampers with the scales of life and makes it seem unduly heavy will receive his punishment in hell. Even if life's weight is not tampered with, it is like a coat, its weight barely noticed; only the sick man feels the weight of that overcoat and grows stiff in the shoulders. I have to wear heavier clothing than others…because it happens that my soul was born and still lives in the snow country.”