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To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

Mouse

The Matrix · 1999

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Desire Impulse Human nature

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Science fiction (film)Action (film)Science fiction Action

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Time

1999

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Mouse

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

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