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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
    tags: three-comrades
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    Emma Goldman
    “Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: arrogance, emma-goldman, patriotism, superstition
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: patriotism
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    François Fénelon
    “All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.”
    ― Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
    tags: humanity, humans, nationalism, patriotism, war
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: patriotism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: aggression, nationalism, patriotism
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    Julian Barnes
    “The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: government, patriotism, politics
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Defendant
    tags: patriotism, wit
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    Mark Twain
    “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism
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    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: dissent, patriotism, protest
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    Edward Abbey
    “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: activism, dissent, moral-courage, patriotism, protest
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    Thomas Paine
    “Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
    ― thomas paine, Rights of Man
    tags: equality, ethics, morality, rights, secular-ethics, secular-morality
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: patriotism, war
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    George Orwell
    “The only good human being is a dead one.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: misquote, paraphrased
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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    Mark Twain
    “It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humorous
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    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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    Alan Moore
    “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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    Alan Moore
    “Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Banksy
    “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules
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