#100 days of honesty Day 37

“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.” 
― J.M. Coetzee, Summertime

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Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events.

Truth, he said, is a superstition.” 
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons