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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Blood of Others

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Sang des autres [The Blood of Others]. Gallimard, 1945, ch. 5.

It was a real slow walk in a real sad rain.

Johnny Cash

Drive On

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Cash, Johnny. "Drive On." American Recordings. American Recordings, 1994.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again.

Simon & Garfunkel

The Sound of Silence

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Simon, Paul. "The Sounds of Silence." Performed by Simon & Garfunkel. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M, Columbia Records, 1964.

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The King of Comedy. Directed by Martin Scorses, Embassy International Pictures, 1982.

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Einstein, Albert. "To Jost Winteler." The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 1: The Early Years, 1879-1902, English Translation Supplement, translated by Anna Beck. Princeton University Press, 1987, no. 115. Originally from Letter to Jost Winteler, 8 July 1901.

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Clinton, Hillary. Interview on Today. NBC Television, 27 Jan. 1998.

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Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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The Usual Suspects. Directed by Bryan Singer. Bad Hat Harry Productions/Gramercy Pictures/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/Spelling Television/Blue Parrot Productions, 1995.

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Brand, Stewart. "Whole Earth Epilog." Whole Earth Catalog, Oct. 1974.

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Dumb and Dumber. Directed by Peter Farrelly, Katja Motion Picture Corporation/Krevoy/Stabler/Wessler Production, 1994.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Magnum Force

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Magnum Force. Directed by Ted Post. The Malpaso Company, 1973.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

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McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, ch. 2.

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Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Natant/Harrier Films, 1987.

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Freud, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [The Discomfort in Culture]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag Wien, 1930, pt. 8.

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Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021, pt. 8.

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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Dr. Strangelove. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Hawk Films, 1964.