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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
those T-34s? Better not to look! I see you shining, my beloved, chaotic, all-knowing, heartless Russia. Stalin's daughter Svetlana wrote that.
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
All this is the flimsiest speculation, which is God's gift to historical fictioneers.
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
The things you love too much perish"-After Shostakovich and Volkov, p. 78. The composer goes on: "You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear.
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
...each bullet not a moment but a moment's end...
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
Bones, murdered or merely perished, ought to stay silent. That's the law. But, quick and shrill as a violin-screech, they come back, to the terror of all who stand guilty of living, and then they dance, playing on their tomb-lids as lightly as cats--but the game's evil, hateful, angry; there's no fun in being a skeleton!
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities.
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
E. Kruglikova, who in real life might never have met him {I have no confirmed information on this}, smiled lustrously; she was wearing a formal black dress and a necklace of frozen tears. Their friends applauded, thereby imitating static on a clandestine radio.
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
L. Moholy-Nagy once wrote: Penetration of the body with light is one of the greatest visual experiences. And so I came back into my Germany, the real Germany, where the sunlight was as white as Heydrich's hands.
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information. I
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
he had always longed to let himself go, sinking and spinning into something greater than himself; and his mind quite naturally worked to consider every facet of every question; so when he was with Coca, who transformed twenty facets into twenty thousand, he could get dizzy if he weren't careful; so he always avoided drawing her into his own perplexities; what
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
As the great Moltke used to say, Genius is diligence.
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William T. Vollmann _ Europe Central
Had he won the battle of Stalingrad, he would have been sitting there, too; for any war against our Soviet Union must be a lost war. {That
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