"It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap."
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"Trapped like a trap in a trap"
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"We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us."
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"You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive."
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"You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die."
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"Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps."
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"Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players."
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