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He tells her. She says, “When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?” He says, “Not in
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“In the late 1940s, a dystopian novel based on the notorious horrors of ‘National Socialism’ would probably have been very well-received. But it would have done nothing to shake the complacency of Western intellectuals concerning the system of state terror for which, at the time, so many of them had either a blind spot or a soft spot.”
― Why Orwell Matters
― Why Orwell Matters
“There are hammers in the world that need to pound in nails, and nails that need to be pounded by hammers.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
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