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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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