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41 " I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live. "
― Gary Shteyngart , Little Failure
42 " the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself. At "
43 " the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself. "
44 " And between them I am rosy cheeked, aflame with health and joy. I am still the owner of the same stupid Soviet polka-dot shirt, but most of it is hidden by a new Italian sweater, its shoulders ringed with something like epaulets, so that I may continue the fantasy that I will join the Red Army someday. My hair is as long and unruly as the Italian state, and the gap between my crooked teeth is its own opera, but the rings under my eyes that have made such an underaged raccoon out of me are gone. "
45 " Power is not a means, Vinston; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” I "