D-503 quotes We Flashcards

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Negative Consequences of Overzealous Pursuits quotes

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“I don’t want √−1! Take it out of me, this √−1” (this irrational rot) “grew in me like some alien thing”

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Theme of isolation and seperation

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“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.”

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Theme of lost innocence

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“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”.

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Theme of alienation

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“The facts are as follows.”
“I know we will win. Because reason should win.”

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hairy paws quote

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“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

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