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Into Everywhere (Something Coming Book 2)

by Paul McAuley (Goodreads Author)

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James’s Quotes

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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“Everything not forbidden is compulsory”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: absurd, government, humor, totalitarianism

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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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