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Albert Camus
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Albert Camus

George Orwell
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell

George Orwell
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

Marcel Proust
“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
Marcel Proust

T.S. Eliot
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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