375 Quotes About Strange

  • Author Douglas Murray
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    For present-day politicians there are only political points to be made from such statements, and the larger the sin the larger the outrage, the larger the apology and the larger the potential political gain for sorrow expressed. Through such statements political leaders can gain the benefits of magnanimity without the stain of involvement: the person making the apology had done nothing wrong and all the people who could have received the apology are dead.

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  • Author Vladimir Nabokov
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    There are events, strange happenings, that strikeThe mind as emblematic. They are likeLost similes adrift without a string.Attached to nothing. Thus that northern king, Whose desperate escape from prison wasBrought off successfully only because Some forty of his followers that nightImpersonated him and aped his flight -

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