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    Stephen King
    “It goes back to what I said about Andy wearing his freedom like an invisibility coat, about how he never really developed a prison mentality. His eyes never got that dull look.”
    ― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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    Xiran Jay Zhao
    “I swear, people cannot make up their minds about who are supposed to be the clueless infants who can’t live without supervision: men or women.”
    ― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow
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    Franz Kafka
    “This getting up early,” he thought, “makes a man quite idiotic.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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    Franz Kafka
    “Why don't I sleep for a little while longer and forget about all this foolishness?”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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    Karin Boye
    “And is this not the very reason for the establishment of the State? If there were cause and reason for confidence among individuals, the State would never have come into existence. The sacred and essential foundation for the State is our mutual and well-founded suspicion of each other. Anyone questioning this foundation throws suspicion upon the State.”
    ― Karin Boye, Kallocain
    tags: authoritarianism, individualism, state, trust
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    Karin Boye
    “Ur tankar och känslor föds ord och handlingar. Hur skulle tankar och känslor då kunna vara den enskildes ensak? (...) Hittills har det bara inte varit möjligt att kontrollera dem - men nu är alltså medlet funnet.”
    ― Karin Boye, Kallocain
    tags: integrity
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    Art Spiegelman
    “Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
    ...On the other hand, he SAID it.”
    ― Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
    outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
    tags: innocence, machines, sin
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. —Chuang Tse: XXIII”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
    tags: comprehension, fate, limits, understanding
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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    Jacqueline Harpman
    “Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
    ― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
    tags: existentialism, god
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    Jacqueline Harpman
    “Is there a satisfaction in the effort of remembering that provides its own nourishment, and is what one recollects less important than the act of remembering? That is another question that will remain unanswered: I feel as though I am made of nothing else.”
    ― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
    tags: memory, past, remembrance
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    Jacqueline Harpman
    “Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.”
    ― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
    tags: survival
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    Jacqueline Harpman
    “Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
    ― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
    tags: education, knowledge, learning, right-to-education, right-to-information
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    Jacqueline Harpman
    “Sometimes the women pitied me, saying that at least they'd known real life, and I was very jealous of them, but they died, as I am about to die, and what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
    ― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
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    Jacqueline Harpman
    “I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
    ― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
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    John Fowles
    “I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
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    John Fowles
    “I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
    tags: beauty, control, kidnap
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    John Fowles
    “What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
    tags: feel, love, selfish, selfishness
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    John Fowles
    “He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Aldous Huxley
    “There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    John Fowles
    “I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
    tags: bad, beauty, good, ugliness
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
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