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Knife
“
your punishment for having a knife when they
searched you would be very different from the thief's. For him to
have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any
better. But for you to have one was "terrorism.
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― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
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As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will.
I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.
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― The Knife of Never Letting Go
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
