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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
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This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-righteousness to distract from the uncomfortable unknowns, from the great open question of what makes us and keeps us human, and human together.
This is also the history of the world: artists — those lighthouses of the spirit — speaking truth to power, placing imagination ahead of ideology,

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