“One cannot envy this man his choice. Looking at his country, he knows that an ever greater dose of suffering awaits its people. Looking at himself, he knows that not one word he pronounces is his own. I am a liar, he thinks, and makes historical determinism responsible for his lies. But sometimes, he is haunted by the thought that the devil to whom men sell their souls owes his might to men themselves, and that the determinism of history is a creation of human brains.”

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