D-503 quotes We Flashcards
Negative Consequences of Overzealous Pursuits quotes
“I don’t want √−1! Take it out of me, this √−1” (this irrational rot) “grew in me like some alien thing”
Theme of isolation and seperation
“I was myself, a separate thing, a world; I stopped being a component.”
“my own mother… would know me as… not a molecule of the One State.”
“I can’t live without you, I don’t want to live without you.”
Theme of lost innocence
“The half-light of the rooms, blue, saffron-yellow, dark green Morocco, the Buddha’s golden smile, gleaming mirrors.”
“Life is either blackless or whiteless” based on “logical premise.”
“I was myself, a separate thing, a world; I stopped being a component”.
Theme of alienation
“The facts are as follows.”
“I know we will win. Because reason should win.”
hairy paws quote
“There were two me’s. One was… Number D-503, and the other” had “hairy paws.”
there were clouds and cobwebs and a cross, some kind of four-pawed X, inside me