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“weakness is the loss of the ability to rebel, it is taking orders and being led around, it is the obliteration of the personality;”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedie
he is talking about muna in the text but doesn't that describe him taking orders from the party to separate himself entirely for society?
“the struggle is between the demands of the ‘i’ which has its needs and desires and the ‘we’ which presents its own demands. the cursed ‘i’ is incapable of anything!”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
“my desires grow and grow and are transformed into sharp fangs that tear into my flesh, brain, and blood, transforming into a savage dracula.”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
“prison would be a thousand times better”
The trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
“lonesomeness is killing me; no mother, no brother, no sister, no lover, no friends or acquaintances. how did I leave all that behind? what sort of madman am I?”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
vs his demands and shame of muna
“that is not an ordinary sentence, it is a slow death sentence. man is a social being. how can he retain his humanity if he isolates himself from society and social life?”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
“his new life antagonized every cell in his body; he was tense, his nerves high strung and stretched to the limit”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
“What kind of a world was this in which a man wakes up in the morning and does not go out of the house, instead sitting at a table or pacing from wall to wall, afraid to open the door? People woke up in the morning and opened their doors: some went to school, others to their place of work, another to shop, and yet another to gossip with their neigh
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