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“In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by ‘thou shalt not’, the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by ‘love’ or ‘reason’, he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.”
― George Orwell, Politics vs Literature

“- I used to love you.
- What’s changed?
- You.
- No. Now you see me. That’s all.”
― Sarah Kane

“To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“Never tell me, by the way, that the dead look peaceful. Most of the corpses I have seen looked devilish.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant