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Liberty Falling

In a world where civilization has crumbled, a group of individuals struggle to find meaning and purpose amidst chaos. The story delves into the human spirit's resilience and the quest for liberty in a fallen society. more

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Nevada Barr
Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr is an American author known for her suspense novels. Her works often feature a natural setting and female protagonists, blending historical and crime elements. Born on March 1, 1952, Barr graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dual degree in biology and art history. more

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“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.”

“These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.”