# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Children Of The Mind

> He chose this world as his home, not just because there was a family that needed him, but also because in this place he did not have to be entirely a member of the human race... He could be part of something larger than mere humanity.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [Children Of The Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind/he-chose-this

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> I have been a slave. But at least in all that time I knew my own heart. I knew what I truly thought even as I did what they wanted, whatever it took to get what I wanted from them.

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> I have a sense of comfortableness in love; it isn't grand sweeping passions that I expected to feel.

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> The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

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