Rawi Hage

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All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries

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Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person’s face that anything changes. All empires are hungry cannibals

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So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms

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Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone’s faces

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This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die