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I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.


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I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.
         



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I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.



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