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“I fear for your future, Kira,' said Victor. 'It's time to get reconciled to life. You won't get far with those ideas of yours.'
'That,' said Kira, 'depends on what direction I want to go.”
― We the Living
'That,' said Kira, 'depends on what direction I want to go.”
― We the Living

“The Internet I'd grown up with, the Internet that had raised me, was disappearing. And with it, so was my youth. The very act of going online, which had once seemed like a marvelous adventure, now seemed like a fraught ordeal.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record

“Those who separate themselves from love, hardening their hearts as they grasp for power or wealth or fame, must separate themselves from the ground of their being. To fail to love is to destroy oneself.”
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“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Love makes everything lovely: hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.”
― An Anthology: 365 Readings
― An Anthology: 365 Readings

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