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that all men are one and that there is no will save the will of all men together.
This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick.
It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.
We looked upon Union 5-3992, who were a pale boy with only half a brain, and we tried to say and do as they did, that we might be like them, like Union 5-3992,
We learned that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around it, which causes the day and the night.
The plays are about toil and how good it is.
ago when our crime happened. Thus must all men live until they are forty. At forty, they are worn out. At forty, they are sent to the Home of the Useless,
When a miracle happens and some live to be forty-five, they are the Ancient Ones,
Union 5-3992 were stricken with convulsions on the edge of the City, near the City Theatre. We left them to lie in the shade of the Theatre tent
Not you leaving the retarded boy lmaoooo
It is forbidden, not to be happy. For, as it has been explained to us, men are free and the earth belongs to them; and all things on earth belong to all men; and the will of all men together is good for all; and so all men must be happy.
they dare not speak the thoughts of their minds. For all must agree with all, and they cannot know if their thoughts are the thoughts of all, and so they fear to speak.
Evil Ones
And in these fires the Evil Ones and all the things made by the Evil Ones were burned. And the fire which is called the Dawn of the Great Rebirth, was the Script Fire where all the scripts of the Evil Ones were burned, and with them all the words of the Evil Ones.
The words of the Evil Ones . . . The words of the Unmentionable Times . . . What are the words which we have lost?
They will see, understand and forgive. For our gift is greater than our transgression.
Men never see their own faces and never ask their brothers about it, for it is evil to have concern for their own faces or bodies.
we wish it were possible to us to know the likeness of our own person.
