Sero

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“There were murderers looking for the right people to murder, people whose deaths would gain the approval of the king. There were jesters-in-reverse whose job was not to make the king laugh or to tell him uncomfortable truths but to laugh uncontrollably at the king’s humorless witticisms and listen to and applaud his barefaced lies. There were members of criminal gangs whom the king had placed in charge of the police force. There were crooked lawyers, crooked judges, crooked legal clerks, all there to make sure that the laws of the land would crumble and fail beneath the stamping foot of the king who had placed himself above the law.
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when the king married not one but two of his nieces, the word incest was simply expunged from the lexicon and made illegal to use; and after that it became necessary to make other changes to the dictionary, to redescribe rape as love, horror as patriotism, bullying as good governance, war as peace, freedom as slavery, and ignorance as strength, so as to ensure that the absolute monarch had absolute power over the language itself, over vocabulary and syntax and metaphor and fable, and to turn the world upside down, so that it would only mean what the monarch wished it to mean.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories

“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame