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If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

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Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

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For thirty years students have been complaining to me that 'it was easy for you': your generation had ideals and ideas, you believed in something, you were able to change things. 'We' (the children of the '80s, the '90s, the 'aughts') have nothing. In many respects my students are right. It was easy for us—just as it was easy, at least in this sense, for the generations who came before us. The last time a cohort of young people expressed comparable frustration at the emptiness of their lives and the dispiriting purposelessness of their world was in the 1920s: it is not by chance that historians speak of a 'lost generation'.

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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

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The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

Tony Judt

Tony Judt

Tony Judt

Born: January 2, 1948

Died: August 6, 2010 (aged 62)

Bio: Tony Robert Judt was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history.

Known for:

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005)
Ill Fares the Land (2010)
The Memory Chalet (2010)
When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010

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