Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. ― Karl Marx

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I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

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I am a machine condemned to devour books. ― Karl Marx

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We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. ― Karl Marx

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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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I am nothing but I must be everything. ― Karl Marx

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ― Karl Marx

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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

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