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The Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word
The closest thing Equality 7-2521 has to a friend in the City, International 4-8818 is a humorous, ambitious artist who was forced to abandon his passion when he was assigned to work as a Street Sweeper. International 4-8818 is individualistic enough to cover up Equality 7-2521’s discovery of the tunnel and help him sneak away from nightly entertainment, and Equality 7-2521 plans to recruit him to live in his egocentric colony in the forest.
International 4-8818 Quotes in Anthem
The Anthem quotes below are all either spoken by International 4-8818 or refer to International 4-8818. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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International 4-8818 and we are friends. This is an evil thing to say, for it is a transgression, the great Transgression of Preference, to love any among men better than the others, since we must love all men and all men are our friends. So International 4-8818 and we have never spoken of it. But we know. We know, when we look into each other's eyes. And when we look thus without words, we both know other things also, strange things for which there are no words, and these things frighten us.
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International 4-8818 Quotes in Anthem
The Anthem quotes below are all either spoken by International 4-8818 or refer to International 4-8818. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
Quotes
International 4-8818 and we are friends. This is an evil thing to say, for it is a transgression, the great Transgression of Preference, to love any among men better than the others, since we must love all men and all men are our friends. So International 4-8818 and we have never spoken of it. But we know. We know, when we look into each other's eyes. And when we look thus without words, we both know other things also, strange things for which there are no words, and these things frighten us.
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