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“..the paradoxical fact that nothing is, indeed, something. Our commandant was a man who didn't get the joke, and people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed. They are the ones who say nothing with great piousness , who ask everyone else to die for nothing, who revere nothing.”

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Book:The Sympathizer

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