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“To be thoroughly conversant with a Mans heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
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