“Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.”
Slavoj Žižek book The Sublime Object of Ideology
161
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
“Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
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