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sma347

sma347

Joined March 2020

A student of Literature and Language, with a keen interest in metaphysics.
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Palace of Dreams | Ismail Kadare
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For in the nocturnal realm of sleep are to be found both the light and the darkness of humanity, its honey and its poison, its greatness and its vulnerability. All that is murky and harmful, or that will become so in a few years or centuries makes its first appearance in man's dreams. Every passion or wicked thought, every reflection or crime, every rebellion or catastrophe necessarily casts its shadow before it long before it manifests itself...

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1984 | George Orwell
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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution;
one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you
begin to understand me?‘ - 1984, Orwell.