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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    “War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: soldier, terror, timeless, vengeance, war, world-war-ii
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    “The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: human-condition, humanity, soldier, war, world-war-ii
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    “Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not be remembered.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
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    “It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: intense-words, writing
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    “Human beings, rulers of the animal world, had created their own destruction. A process of natural selection, often very badly organized, periodically topples our crown.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
    ― John F. Kennedy, Why England Slept
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    Russell Kirk
    “Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
    ― Russell Kirk
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    Russell Kirk
    “If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”
    ― Russell Kirk
    tags: peace-of-mind, politics, theology
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    Russell Kirk
    “Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.”
    ― Russell Kirk
    tags: human-being, literature, reading, what-should-children-read
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    Russell Kirk
    “Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.”
    ― Russell Kirk, Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    tags: abuse, dark-secrets, knowing-oneself, not-knowing, repression, secrets, subconscious, suppression, survivors, trauma-memory, traumatized, unconscious
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    Bessel van der Kolk
    “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: truth
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    John Steinbeck
    “My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: imagination
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    John Steinbeck
    “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance
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    John Steinbeck
    “People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: age-young-old
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    John Steinbeck
    “I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
    I'm not good." -Cal
    Because you're not good." -Abra”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: expectations, perception
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    Timothy Snyder
    “It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.”
    ― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
    tags: history, world-war-ii
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  • #30
    Timothy Snyder
    “When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.”
    ― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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