“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.”
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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