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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
