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Octavia Butler Quotes

Beware: Ignorance protects itself. Ignorance promotes suspicion. Suspicion engenders fear. Fear quails, irrational and blind, or fear looms, defiant and closed. Blind, closed, suspicious, afraid, Ignorance protects itself, and protected, Ignorance grows.

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