Socratic Seminar Quotes

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Socratic Seminar Quotes
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Directions

• Discuss the thematic ideas/concepts that can be
  compared through the various quotes.

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Beloved vs. Heart of Darkness

• Saying more might push them both to a place they
  couldnt get back from. He would keep the rest
  where it belonged in that tobacco tin buried in
  his chest where a red heart used to be. Its lid
  rusted shut.

• You lost your way on that river as you would in a
  deserttil you thought yourself bewitched and cut
  off forever from everything you had once.

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Beloved vs. Heart of Darkness

• White people believed that whatever the manners,
  under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift
  unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons,
  sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet
  white blood. In a way . . . they were right.

• It was unearthly, and the men wereNo, they were
  not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst
  of itthe suspicion of their not being inhuman.

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The Stranger vs. Beloved

• But everybody knows life isnt worth living.

• They killed the flirt whom folks called Life for
  leading them on. Making them think the next
  sunrise would be worth it that another stroke of
  time would do it at last.

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Heart of Darkness vs. The Stranger

• Droll thing life is that mysterious arrangement
  of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most
  you can hope from it is some knowledge of
  yourself that comes too late a crop of
  unextinguishable regrets.

• So close to death Maman must have felt free then
  and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody
  had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready
  to live it all again too.

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The Stranger vs. Heart of Darkness

• I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy
  again. For everything to be consummated, for me
  to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there
  be a large crowd of spectators the day of my
  execution and that they greet me with cries of
  hate.

• The possibility of sudden onslaught and massacre,
  or something of the kind, which I saw impending,
  was positively welcome and composing.