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  1. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    What you don't understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don't believe. Hard lines.
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  2. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    And when the dark comes, he will look up and out and see a little smudge of light that is a galaxy that exploded millions of years ago, and the oppression that had gripped his heart lifts, and he laughs, and he calls his wife and says: Look, we are seeing something that ceased to exist millions of years ago-and she sees, exactly, and laughs with him.
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  3. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    The young often have moments of clear thinking, which as they grow older become fewer, and muddied. He had kept alive in some part of him a knowledge that he was "destined" to do something or other. He felt this as pure and unsullied, but-more often and more deeply as he grew older-"impractical".
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  4. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.
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  5. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    Standardisation of intellectual and emotional patterns had become extreme. A main mechanism for achieving this was a device that supplied identical indoctrinational material simultaneously into every living or working unit, whether that of a single person, a family, or an institution, through a whole country. These programmes were standardised, particularly for children. At best they reinforced a low level of ethic-kindness to animals, for instance-but the worst was inherent in the sheer fact of the infinite repetition."
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  6. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate. But when the Gods explode, or err, or dissolve into flying clouds of gas, or shrink, or expand, or whatever else their fates might demand, then the minuscule items of their substance may in their small ways express-not protest, which of course is inappropriate to their station in life-but an acknowledgement of the existence of irony: yes, they may sometimes allow themselves-always with respect-the mildest possible grimace of irony.
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  7. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    War...strengthened the position of the armament industries...to a point...that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations...war barbarised and lowered the already very low level of accepted conduct.
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  8. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    We are all creatures of the stars.
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