Belief in an authoritarian version of national destiny is staging a powerful comeback.


“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
― Jazz
― Jazz

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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“Life is an illusion created by your perception, and it can be changed the moment you choose to change it.”
― You Are a Badass庐: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
― You Are a Badass庐: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
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