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We have behind us a whole century of mass madness. What have we learned from it if we do not recognize history repeating itself in a new guise?

— Oksana Zabuzhko

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That’s what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it.

Ukrainians are fighting to free Europe from the spectre of totalitarianism

If authors weren’t translated, it doesn’t mean they didn’t exist”

It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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