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A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it’s because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.’
Hate
The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.
Opinions
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom.
Tragedy
keen to shut down protests before they could spread like stains on a cloth. The nightmare of the ruling elite – and the dream of dissidents – was that the stains would join up until the cloth was entirely a new colour.
Cloth
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From Berlin to Vladivostock, the Soviet empire was a bog in which its citizens struggled and often sank but never made progress.
Soviet empire
She observed a shabbily dressed woman moving her pencil down the list, giving a little grunt of fulfilment each time she identified a Communist, and running her pencil through the name with a smile of pleasure. Tania suspected the government might have been unwise to choose a system of marking the paper in which rejection could feel so physically satisfying.
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