The best books are those that tell you what you know already.

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  The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

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  Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is to restate the obvious.

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  There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

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  Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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  Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

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  Power is not a means; it is an end.

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