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They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the deepest necessity to despise them. exactly like those who had first maligned them, they saw what their history had taught them to see. I did not know if one ever sees more than that.
If one ever does, it can only be because one has learned to read one's history and resolved to step out of the book.
— May 15, 2026 12:00PM
If one ever does, it can only be because one has learned to read one's history and resolved to step out of the book.
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Mika
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“I did not refuse to join the Army, but outwited it by a particular species of ruthless cunning. I was - I say now - prepared to go to jail. The Japanese had already been interned. I was not going to fight for the people who had interned them, who had also destroyed the Indians, who were in the process of destroying everyone I loved: I was not going to defend my murderers.”
— 9 hours, 9 min ago
Mika
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“I had to agree because it is always possible that if one man can be saved, a multitude can be saved. But, in fact, it seemed to me that Christopher's options and possibilities could change only when the actual framework changed: and the metamorphosis of the framework into which we had been born would almost certainly be so violent as to blow Christopher, and me, and all of us, away.”
— Aug 01, 2026 02:12AM
Mika
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“But Pete and Barbara loved me. I was very happy to know that. I was happy to know I knew it. For people had loved me, after all, when I had simply not dared to know it, and I had hurt them, and myself, very badly.”
— Jul 30, 2026 01:39PM
Mika
is on page 213 of 384
Mind you, this was written in the 60s:
“‘Do you know Im bisexual?’
‘Yes. At least, I supposed it.’
‘It doesn't bother you?’
‘Why should it bother me, Leo? I'm not in your body. I can't live your life. I only want to share your life. Anyway - what difference would it make if I did mind? It wouldn't change anything. It would just make you not trust me - I'm glad you know you're bisexual.’”
— Jun 22, 2026 11:53AM
“‘Do you know Im bisexual?’
‘Yes. At least, I supposed it.’
‘It doesn't bother you?’
‘Why should it bother me, Leo? I'm not in your body. I can't live your life. I only want to share your life. Anyway - what difference would it make if I did mind? It wouldn't change anything. It would just make you not trust me - I'm glad you know you're bisexual.’”
Mika
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Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
… one does many things, turns the key in the lock over and over again, hoping to be locked out.
… And yet - one would prefer, after all, not to be locked out. One would prefer, merely, that the key unlocked a less stunningly unusual door.
— Mar 07, 2026 02:43AM
… one does many things, turns the key in the lock over and over again, hoping to be locked out.
… And yet - one would prefer, after all, not to be locked out. One would prefer, merely, that the key unlocked a less stunningly unusual door.