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Ukrainians are fighting to free Europe from the spectre of totalitarianism

— 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.

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?

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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