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“Both of you were taught to govern,� he said. “You were conditioned to an overweening thirst for power. You were imbued with a shrewd grasp of politics and a deep understanding for the uses of war and ritual. Natural law? What natural law?
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“At any time I felt I could do or say anything at all, and only afterward think: oh, so that’s the kind of person I am.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends

“To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
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