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Ben Howe
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“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“at regular intervals something would float up, like sea turtles and porpoises poking their faces through the surface of the water to breathe. When that happened, she knew that she had been thinking of something up till then. Then her consciousness, lungs full of fresh oxygen, sank back below the surface.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“A long silence descended. Long enough to walk to the end of a long, narrow room, look up something in a dictionary, and walk back.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Though I felt dissatisfied, at least I felt like somebody, a person, rather than a thing exemplifying the second law of thermodynamics (all order tends toward entropy, decay, etc.).”
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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