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"Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions."
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"In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . ."
"We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us."
"We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our own. Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is to think that they are beyond the design flaws of humanity, has done to the world."
"People are stubborn and stupid. They're irrational. they're destructive. that's the point, isn't it? That's the whole reason for the cure. People will no longer destroy their own lives. They won't be capable of it."
"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."
"The oppressor is never as free as they think they are."
"The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom, it was the lack of desiring freedom."
"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive."
"To Survive In A Ruined World, She Must Embrace The Darkness."
"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."
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"The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic."
"Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them."
"His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own."
"Everyone has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, "Do come in! There are men who, when an incident stands half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than the audacious."
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves-say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself."
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