Doris Lessing

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• You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are so...

• You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

• What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapprov...

• We looked down at a glassy glittering icy place many days walking across and very deep, between enormous icy black peaks. All we looked at had...

• This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to sudden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song...

• There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. There was a ligh...

• There was a kind of shifting of the balances of my brain, of the way I had been thinking, the same kind of realignment as when, a few days bef...

• But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are...

• It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

• A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

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