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I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.
Tony Judt
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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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England
Tony Robert Judt
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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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It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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Reality is a powerful solvent.
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As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
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Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
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We need to start talking about inequality again we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.
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I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
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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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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
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Israel today is bad for the Jews.
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There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, This can't go on let's build a European Union. And it just wasn't like that.
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
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I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.
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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
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I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
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At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.
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