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Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

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My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understan...more

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Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wro...more

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What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then...more

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You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have n...more

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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

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In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

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A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

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You're a romantic,” said Crabbe. “You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously c...more