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"'Het is niks voor jou om troebel te zijn,' zegt hij dan. 'Zodra jij met zulke formuleringen aankomt weet ik dat je vooral iets niet wilt zeggen.'

Toch is het niet onwaar, het is hoogstens nog niet waar genoeg."
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Perry Anderson
“It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.”
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“My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.”
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Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

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