Freya Abbas
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This is very interesting to read as a primary source. Although Williams is generally considered to be progressive for his time and a supporter of Native American rights, reading this makes it seem like he was not really that different from other colo
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"Measure for Measure examines the inability of any secular justice system to enforce a strict moral order in a society. Humans administer secular judgment, and often they are tainted with hypocrisy and self-deception. The very judges who judge and pun"
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“What shall I take with me?
Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
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Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
―
“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
― The Songlines
― The Songlines
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
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