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.

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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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Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

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