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Your worst enemy was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom - George Orwell 1984

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Some people need you to believe that if you don’t mutilate yourself for the sake of others, you’re nothing but selfish and damned. Their hate is not your burden.

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Homophobes often rely on the idea that homosexuals have no innate claim to God. The insistence that we be excluded from traditional faith so often a euphemism for power is a tool to ostracise us from mainstream institutions and consequently mainstream life.

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Both prisoners and patrons of our shared patriarchal penitentiary.

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The kind of talking through which people create themselves by giving themselves utterance.

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The criticism is more real than you are: it seems in fact to have created you.

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If you have always been criticised, from before you can remember, it becomes more or less impossible to locate yourself in the time or space before the criticism was made.

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That’s all I’ve managed as far as freedom is concerned, to get rid of the people and the things I don’t like. After that, there isn’t much left!

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But for once I thought, let someone else do it! And that is how we lose control over our own destinies.

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Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves.

[Miss Ally @MissAlly_01]

An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard & a German are sitting in a room when a man enters & asks, "Can you see me?"

They respond; "Yes." "Oui." "Sí." "Ja."

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But what was built these days? It was cheap. Everyone was guilty and no one was.

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He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father. It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child.

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The biggest problem perhaps, was his great affection for tautology. Though he promised explanation, elucidation, and exposition, linguistically he put one in mind of a dog chasing its own tail.

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He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire, the kind of talking that increases it. White Teeth, Zadie Smith

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I cannot be worrying all the time about the truth. I have to worry about the truth that can be lived with.

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‘The object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself’ - White Teeth, Zadie Smith

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Nothing is as good or bad as it seems

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