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“She hadn't been born, as some of her compatriots had been, with the Gallic zeal for burning down the institutions of oppression. But it was becoming too stark to ignore. There was no better world just waiting for them: they were going to have to go out and make it for themselves.”

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Book:The Island of Last Things

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