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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room on the Roof

“I suppose in America a compassionate woman would be burned as a witch, a woman who does it not for money and not out of passionate love for the man, but simply out of pity for masculine nature.”
― Heinrich Böll, The Clown

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore