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D-503: This is unthinkable...your plan is tantamount to a revolution.
I-330: Yes. A revolution!
D-503: Our revolution was the final one. There can be no more revolutions.
I-330: You're a [mathematician]. Tell me. What is the final number?
D-503: That's a ridiculous question...numbers [are] infinite. How could there possibly be a final number?
I-330: Right. There's no final revolution. Revolutions are infinite.

D-503: It’s the One State you’re up against. It’s like putting your hand on the muzzle of a gun and thinking you’ll keep it from going off. It’s completely crazy.
Me: Sounds like trying to effect change in our Western oligarchical capitalist government.

Zamyatin: A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.

Mrs. Komachi: Readers make their own personal connections to words irrespective of the writers’ intentions, and each reader gains something unique.

Natsumi’s boss just told her point blank when she returned from maternity leave that she was being transferred because it was too hard to do her current job with a baby. Is that legal in Japan?

Kitayama: Work hard and eat properly.

I’m not quite sure how I feel about this so far.