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Fahrenheit 451
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“The Salem tragedy, which is about to begin in these pages, developed from a paradox. It is a paradox in whose grip we still live, and there is no prospect yet that we will discover its resolution. Simply, it was this: for good purposes, even high purposes, the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction by material or ideological enemies. It was forged for a necessary purpose and accomplished that purpose. But all organization is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition, just as two objects cannot occupy the same space. Evidently the time came in New England when the repressions of order were heavier than seemed warranted by the dangers against which the order was organized. The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Sui Ishida
“Human relationships are chemical reactions. If you have a reaction then you can never return back to your previous state of being.”
ishida sui

Sui Ishida
“Sinners judging sinners for sinning differently.”
Sui Ishida

Arthur Miller
“What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“This greater life, this godlike bliss!
You, but a worm, have you earned this?
Choosing to turn your back, ah yes,
On all Earth’s lovely Sun might promise!
Let me dare to throw those gates open,
That other men go creeping by!

Now’s the time, to prove through action
Man’s dignity may rise divinely high,
Never trembling at that void where,
Imagination damns itself to pain

Striving towards the passage there
Round whose mouth all Hell’s fires flame;
Choose to take that step, happy to go
Where danger lies, where Nothingness may flow...”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
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