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In Italy, there's no doubt - the core of the community is your immediate family, which presents a unified face to the world while waging its own internal struggles. - in Hungary, likewise

Why not flee when the world around us is a mad dictator's dream, made real?

...during times of famine, something breaks in the mechanism of the mind, or of the stomach, or in that mysterious "cavern under the bedroom of our brain" - the hypothalamus, and from that time on, the immemorial fear of starvation stubbonly turns into fear, ...

What a ridiculous it is to say that something "disappears into the library"! It's the things that stay unwritten, never noted down, that disappear.

Dictators keep their victims on a paper chain - if the papers get lost, they lose their power over them.

I for one sincerely doubt that a man who was truly hungry, who had been going hungry for months, would ever set in stone a childish statement like "thou shalt not steal".

And after Stalingrad, even the opportunists - the backbone and basis of Hitler"s rule - fell away.

The structure is similar to 'Empire of the Sun'

...medical science is only international in theory, in it's abstract principles. Beside the sickbed it is very much national.