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Veronica Scully
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
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“Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded”
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“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
― 1984
― 1984
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
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