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“…it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.” (talking about the chant)
“To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.”
— May 03, 2026 08:26PM
“To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.”
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Abel Allwein
is on page 19 of 112
Also the copy I am reading has more pages than this says so numbers might off…
— May 03, 2026 08:30PM
Abel Allwein
is on page 9 of 112
“How could you communicate with the future?…Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”
Wanting to document quotes I like through this progress feature. This is crazy that this was written in 1949…I think I am going to really like this book.
— May 03, 2026 06:13PM
Wanting to document quotes I like through this progress feature. This is crazy that this was written in 1949…I think I am going to really like this book.
Abel Allwein
is on page 6 of 112
Just getting into it and omg it’s not subtle. I am really loving the opportunity to read these classics for the first time as an adult (my English classes in high school did not teach this book), even if I wish I read this book sooner.
— May 03, 2026 05:53PM
