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Swan Song
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This was a dank, sinister chill: the chill of shadows where poison toadstools grow, their ruddy colors beckoning a child to come, come take a taste of candy.


“So I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
― The Message
― The Message

“Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your lifeâ€� you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work

“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

“For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Qui a tué mon père
― Qui a tué mon père

“Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.”
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
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