They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator
Quoted in “Farewell in a Poet’s Land,” Life Magazine (1960-06-13)
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On the Communist leadership of the Soviet Union.
This article was an obituary for Pasternak. I have been unable to find a primary source for the quote.
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ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE
EQUAL THAN OTHERSGeorge Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Animal Farm, ch. 10 (1945)
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