Waiting for the Barbarians
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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
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Space is space, life is life, everywhere the same.
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‘Nothing is worse than what we can imagine,’
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‘if we are to be frank, that is what war is about: compelling a choice on someone who would not otherwise make it.’
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How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid?
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A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven.
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‘When some men suffer unjustly,’ I said to myself, ‘it is the fate of those who witness their suffering to suffer the shame of it.’