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“dem Stumpfsinn sind immer alle nachgelaufen der Geist ist immer mit Füßen getreten worden”

Book:Heldenplatz

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Heldenplatz

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Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard, born on February 9, 1931 and died on February 12, 1989, was an influential Austrian novelist. His works are renowned for their unique style and profound criticism of social reality. more

“Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways... Too often, people make the mistake of trying to use their art to capture a ghost, but only end up spreading their haunting to countless other people.”

Ghosts Memes Hai

Book:The Drowning Girl

Source: The Drowning Girl

“Hello everybody i am Devon i am awesome plz quote if want to :)”

Hai

Author:Devon1997

“Strong drink has agitated the town since its founding. Almost its first organization was a temperance society. Its founders had three anathemas, irreligion, slavery and intemperance. They thought they had barred alcohol forever by incorporating in all deeds the proviso that if intoxicating drinks were made or sold on the premises, the land would revert to the college. The clause was never legally invoked, and is probably invalid.”

Galesburg Il Knox College

Book:They Broke the Prairie

Source: They Broke the Prairie

“Greif swelled inside me, choking me. His- death. I felt as if i was dying just to think of it.”

Achillies

Author:Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In Homers Ilias scheint Thetis jedenfalls keine Einwände gegen die Beziehung ihres Sohnes Achilles zu Patrokles gehabt zu haben. Und Königin Olympias von Makedonien (eine der mächtigsten Frauen der Antike, die angeblich ihren Mann ermorden ließ) hatte offenbar nichts dagegen, als ihr Sohn Alexander der Große seinen Geliebten Hephaestion zum Essen nach Hause brachte.”

Achilles German Patroclus Alexander The Great Patrochilles Hephaestion

Book:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was as foolhardy as it would have been to write emperor-worship and Shinto militarism into Japan's 1946 constitution.”

Islam Iraq Japan Afghanistan Sharia Law

Author:Robert Spencer

“The problem is that, when places like Saudi Arabia just implement the penal code, and don’t provide the social and economic justice of the Sharia—the whole package—they simply engender hatred toward the Sharia.”

Law Islam Saudi Arabia Sharia Law

Author:Anjem Choudary

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