Basic Vocabulary

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“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.”
—Marina Warner (b. 1946)