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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
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bookshelves: 2024, 21th-century, politics-feminism-ideology, autobiography-biography-memoir
Feb 13, 2025
bookshelves: 2024, 21th-century, politics-feminism-ideology, autobiography-biography-memoir
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Reading Progress
November 26, 2021
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November 11, 2024
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Started Reading
November 20, 2024
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14.88%
"When you were born there was hope. Hope is something you have to fight for. But there comes a point when it turns into illusion; it’s very dangerous. It all comes down to how one interpretes the facts."
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50
November 21, 2024
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35.12%
"In my family,everyone had a favourite revolution,just as everyone had a favourite summer fruit.My mother’s was watermelon,her favourite revolution was the English one.Mine were figs & Russian.My father empathized that he was sympathetic to all our revolutions but his favourite was the one that had yet to take place.His favourite fruit was quince.Dates were my grandmother’s,her favourite revolution was the French one."
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118
November 22, 2024
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41.07%
"Toto Cutugno won the Eurovision song contest with Insieme:1992. I knew enough Italian to be able to sing along “We are ever more free, together, unite, unite Europe.� It was not until years later that I discovered that a song I had always assumed celebrated freedom and unity in the spread of socialist ideals around Europe was actually about the Maastricht treaty, which would soon consolidate the liberal market."
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138
November 24, 2024
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60.12%
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The West had spent decades criticizing the East for its closed borders, condemning the immorality of states restricting the right to exit. Our exiles used to be received as heroes. Now they were treated as criminals."
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202
November 25, 2024
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60.42%
"Perhaps freedom of movement had never really mattered. But what value does the right to exit have if there is no right to enter? Were borders and walls reprehensible only when they served to keep people in, as opposed to keeping them out?"
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203
November 25, 2024
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99.7%
"Freedom is not sacrificed only when others tell us what to say, where to go, how to behave. A society that claims to enable people to realize their potential but fails to change the structures that prevent everyone from flourishing is also oppressive. And yet despite all the constraints, we never lose our inner freedom: the freedom to do what is right."
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November 26, 2024
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Finished Reading
😆😆 You know I'm only making fun, you spoil us with your reviews anyway, so it's nice for you to have a day off, right? What a book, and great to see those 5-stars my friend :))