People aren't supposed to look back.
("Slaughterhouse-Five")
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You are going to do this voluntarily, Mr. Constant, so that the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent can have a drama of dignified self-sacrifice to remember and ponder through all time.
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He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.
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