"Only from our stories can we discover that our stories have come to an end, otherwise we would go on living as if there were still something for us to continue ; that is, we would go on living in error."

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“You just sit here and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”

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