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• Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.
• What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of…
• Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their…
• The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.
• All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is…
• I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.
• Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
• And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred…
• They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.
• Complaints about reality are immature.
• People can only be found in what they do.
• I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

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