P. D. James - The Children of Men (1992)

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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

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The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man's-land.

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We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.

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