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“Divided, cut up by borders, frontiers, fences and prohibitions, our wretched planet flew on, spinning into the icy emptiness of space, toward the sharp pinpoints of those stars --and nowhere on its surface was there a place where someone was not keeping someone else behind bars; where one lot of prisoners, helped by other prisoners, was not guarding a third set of prisoners --and themselves-- against the risk of taking an undesirable, lethally dangerous gulp of the bright blue air of freedom.”
― Faithful Ruslan
― Faithful Ruslan

“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”
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“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
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