"It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way."

-- James Bovard

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“I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.”
“Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.”
“I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.”
“To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.”
“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, â€œMusic.”
“It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.”
“Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.”
“And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.”

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