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Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

— Germaine Greer The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

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I hated being out of touch, isolated by the solipsism of delirium, unable to communicate or comprehend.

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Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.

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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

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