We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
("The Handmaid's Tale")
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Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?
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Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.
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Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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