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“Our appetite for the secret, thought Arendt, is dangerously political. Totalitarianism removes the difference between private and public not just to make individuals unfree, but also to draw the whole society away from normal politics and toward conspiracy theories… we are seduced by the notion of hidden realities and dark conspiracies that explain everything.”

“Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.”

not naming harry potter as a positive book to read for anti-tyrannical messages. i mean sure i guess but come on

"I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner." when i say he's everything

“we have jean valjean and cosette at home”
>dr manette and lucie

judging by the passages i underlined the first time i read this, someone probably should have checked on high school max

a lot of this book is nonsense but when im thinking about sydney carton i could bite through brick

you could juice so much great doppelgänger horror out of this book

HI BABYGIRL

“You are going to flop, mother!” dickens gay era

for all the things you can say about dickens. and there are a lot. at least he hates the prison system and the death penalty

i;'m not proud of this

IT’S ALWAYS THAT FUCKING MONKEY!!!!

MRS. COULTER WITH THE STEEL CHAIR????

“There,” he said, “I have just brushed ten million other worlds, and they knew nothing of it.”

"Had I unwillingly signed some Mephistophelean pact that guaranteed professional success at the expense of private failure? ... I see now that my yearning for self-transcendence is in some ways an attempt to avoid the strain of relating to other people. If you can manage to see past everyday reality, where subject and object hold sway, to the view where it's all one thing... there's nothing to relate to."

dies

save me alison bechdel save me

“But it just seems like, like such a loss to, I don’t know—to men to have you going for the girls.”

“But then it would be a loss to women if I went for the boys, isn’t it?”

"a mural that looked like a battle plan for world domination, all circles and arrows, and another of two bikes in carnal embrace"

two bikes. having sex. two bikes. having sex. my muscles. my m

stumbles out of the waterloo section covered in blood

"A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to."

it is like. devastatingly unsurprising to learn that one of the the british officials who did the most for zionism in the 1910s was also famously evil in ireland. like oh yeah every system of oppression feeds off the others

"A reminder, perhaps, that abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something, and not care how they get it."