1951


The Catcher in the Rye
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
The End of the Affair
The Day of the Triffids
The Illustrated Man
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
My Cousin Rachel
Memoirs of Hadrian
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
Bestiario
The Rebel
The Caine Mutiny
The Puppet Masters
Hangsaman
Jack Vance
You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition. ...more
Jack Vance, The Augmented Agent and Other Stories

That's how the world is arranged: they can take anyone's freedom from him, without a qualm. If we want to take back the freedom which is our birthright—they make us pay with our lives and the lives of all whom we meet on the way. They can do anything, but we cannot. That's why they are stronger than we. ...more
Georgi Tenno, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII

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