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Chartbook #110: Being There - Last Call At The Hotel Imperial

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Adam Tooze
Apr 10, 2022
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Chartbook #110: Being There - Last Call At The Hotel Imperial

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“The consciousness that I live in a revolutionary world is the central fact in my life. I go to sleep and I awake thinking of the world in which I live. My whole personal life has become in a profound sense of secondary importance, and indeed, it, so immediate and so practical, is the part which is dream-like and unreal, and the other, more remote, touching me personally so little, is the imminent, the overwhelming reality. At the center of what I know is the realization and the acceptance of the certainty that never in my lifetime will I live again in the world in which I was born and grew to maturity.”

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