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The newspapers, needless to say, complied with the instructions given them: optimism at all costs. If one was to believe what one read in them, our populace was giving “a fine example of courage and composure.” But in a town thrown back upon itself, in which nothing could be kept secret, no one had illusions about the “example” given by the public.
— May 01, 2021 06:01AM
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How, for instance, continue to ignore the funerals on the day when somebody you loved needed one?
You will find no tears in a country that is no more now but a crematorium.
— Apr 29, 2021 08:15AM
You will find no tears in a country that is no more now but a crematorium.
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"A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn’t always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they haven’t taken their precautions."
— Apr 26, 2021 10:02AM
