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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
Victim

"It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
Victim

"My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims."

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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist
Victim

"And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Victim

"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Victim

"You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS."

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