The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling; whereas among the "criminals" one finds a singularly high percentage of people who are direct, sincere, and true to themselves-Czesław Miłosz
Saturday, April 5, 2014
#WaveOfAction
"All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made
up of patches and pieces of other people's individuality, and had no
sartorial existence of their own proper."
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