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“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

“Three keys to success: read, read, read.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?”
― Britney Spears

“The stigma of mental illness is still alive and well.”
― Kate Clifford Larson, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

“The saddest part to me was that what I always wanted was a dad who would love me as I was—somebody who would say, “I just love you. You could do anything right now. I’d still love you with unconditional love.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“I hate dancing. I'd rather climb trees any day!”
― Carolyn Meyer, Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914

“If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.”
― Carolyn Meyer, Doomed Queen Anne

“Everyone thought it was hilarious. Look how crazy she is! Even my parents acted embarrassed by me. But nobody seemed to understand that I was simply out of my mind with grief. My children had been taken away from me. With my head shaved, everyone was scared of me, even my mom. No one would talk to me anymore because I was I was too ugly. My long hair was a big part of what people liked – I knew that. I knew a lot of guys thought long hair was hot… shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: Fuck you. You want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you. You want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“I wanted to hide, but I also wanted to be seen. Both things could be true.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“Tragedy runs in my family.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“I prefer to be left alone with my books.”
― Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.”
― Joan of Arc

“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”
― Sarah Miller, The Lost Crown

“Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But the smart money seems to know what it is doing. It provides support for programs like the Good News Club, which slowly erode the support for public education in the country at large and in their own constituency in particular. And then it lays the groundwork for dismantling public education in favor of a private system of religious education funded by the state.”
― Katherine Stewart, The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America’s Children

“As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.”
― Antonia Fraser

“There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.”
― Robert Massie

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral,”
― Greg King, The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World