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“We in America understand the many imperfections of democracy and the malignant disease corroding its very heart. We must be united in the effort to make an America in which our people can find happiness. It is a great wrong that anyone in
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“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!”
― First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
― First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love." (Let the Right One In)”
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“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
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