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I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure because it is necessary. (p. 456)

— Whittaker Chambers Witness (1952)

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Lenin was a Great Russian peasant et rien de plus, mais r-r-rien de plus. Oh yes, he was a dialectician, the only true one among them. But most of all he was a Russian and that is to be a peasant.

Notes from the Underground (1997)

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. (p. 40)

Cold Friday (1964)

A man is not primarily a witness against something. (p. 5)

Witness (1952)

Now, the Communists recognized at once (or, more probably, after they had stirred things up a bit) that Senator McCarthy is a political godsend. (p. 57)

Odyssey of a Friend (1969)

Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance. (p. 281)

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