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Our society, however, has grown increasingly wary over the authenticity of its judgments; its citizens seeking sheepish approval rather than a manly reputation for candor
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Thank you for your candor
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Molo nodded at those words thoughtfully, but not simply because of the Pilgrim’s candor
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“Well, Christina, if I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction,” he hisses
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“I thought I would only have trouble with the Candor asking too many questions,” he says coldly
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“But that’s…not fair!” the broad-shouldered Candor girl, Molly, says
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They come from the bunk next to mine—they belong to a Candor boy, Al, the largest and broadest of all the initiates
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Candor and Abnegation don’t hate each other the way Erudite and Abnegation do, but they avoid each other
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“We try to be pretty honest about our feelings in Candor
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A few weeks ago I might have found that question offensive, but now I spend too much time with Candor transfers to be surprised by tactlessness
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I mean, they said they wanted me to stay in Candor, but that’s only because that’s what they’re supposed to say
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“In Candor,” says Al, nudging me with his shoulder
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“What? Did you think I couldn’t defend myself against that piece of Candor trash?”
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candor, it should be the opposite
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“Maybe you were cut out for Candor,” he says, “because you’re a terrible liar
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Candor initiation would reach things that even the simulations can’t touch; it would wreck me
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“I never knew a Candor who was such a liar
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—From the Candor faction manifesto
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We will report this to Erudite, Candor, and Dauntless as soon as we can
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“I’m sure if it had been Candor and not Abnegation that got attacked, you would have just let your family get shot between the eyes without protest
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All faction clothing is represented in the group before me: black Candor pants paired with black Dauntless shirts, yellow dresses with blue sweatshirts over them
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“Half at Erudite headquarters, half at Candor headquarters
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By the time we leave the bathroom, I wear jeans and a black shirt that is so loose up top that it slips off my shoulders, and Susan wears baggy jeans and a white Candor shirt with a collar
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The sign says MERC IS MART—it used to read “Merchandise Mart,” but most people refer to it as the Merciless Mart, because the Candor are merciless, but honest
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He seemed so determined to get to Candor headquarters that I wonder if he’s planning something without me
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It’s pretty commonplace in Candor
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Here the marble floors are white, with a black Candor symbol in the center of the room, and the walls are lit with rows of dim yellow lights, so the whole room glows
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Most of Candor and the remnants of Dauntless are already gathered
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Some of them sit on the tiered benches that wrap around the edge of the room, but there isn’t enough space for everyone, so the rest are crowded around the Candor symbol
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Tobias squeezes my hand, and then releases it, and I stand with Christina at the edge of the Candor symbol
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The Candor all know Marcus is the most influential government official, and some of them must have read the article Jeanine released about his cruelty toward his son
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“Among the Candor, before a person is accepted into our community, they have to completely expose themselves
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All around me, the Dauntless and the Candor wait for me to step forward and spill my entire life before them
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The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs
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Dauntless men, women, and children are everywhere, and there isn’t a single Candor in sight
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As I walk down the hallway, stepping over unconscious people dressed in black and white, I think of a verse of the song Candor children used to sing when they thought no one could hear them:
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I step on a Candor girl’s pinkie, and her face twitches
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When we reach the elevator bank, he forces me to my knees next to the Candor woman I saw earlier
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The Candor woman on my right whimpers
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A Candor boy who can’t be older than eleven sits to my left
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I find out that the Candor boy Eric shot in the head was named Bobby, and that Eric is in stable condition, and that of the hundreds of people in the Merciless Mart, only eighty don’t have needles buried in their flesh, seventy of whom are Dauntless, one of whom is Christina
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it had to be because Dauntless and Candor were the most logical targets
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Candor hallways are wide, wide enough for all the space I want to keep between us
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If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don’t believe in—gray
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“A Dauntless leader shot a Candor child in the head,” I snap
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That is not me, but now, it’s who the Candor think I am
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We can’t attack without Candor, I think, unless we have the factionless
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THAT AFTERNOON I join a group of Candor and Dauntless cleaning up the broken windows in the lobby
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But it’s just a Candor girl—a child
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The Candor stop sweeping and stare at them
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We sit in a room in Candor headquarters called the Gathering Place, which the Dauntless have taken to saying in a mocking way whenever they can
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Zeke was cleared by the Candor an hour ago, in a short interrogation on the eighteenth floor
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He is sitting with a few of the older Candor
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Tobias shoves Marcus toward the middle of the room, where there is a space between the tables to reveal the symbol of Candor
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I dawdle outside the bathroom until the Candor man walks out, and then walk in before the door has a chance to shut properly
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I leave the bathroom just as the Candor man comes back with an ice pack
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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation
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I can run back to Candor headquarters, and to temporary safety
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He walks back to Shauna’s side, and I stand over one of the Candor scales in the lobby, at a loss
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“Attention all occupants of Candor headquarters
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He reminded me that we Candor are in a weak position, dependent on Erudite for our survival, and told me that if I intend to keep my faction free, I will have to meet a few demands
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I shouldn’t be surprised that the leader of Candor is this forthright, but I wasn’t expecting a public announcement
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On the other hand, one thing Candor knows that Dauntless does not is how not to get carried away
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I think of the Candor boy, shot without a second’s hesitation, how stiff he was as he hit the ground next to me
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We stop short of stampeding Jack Kang and the group of Candor that followed him here
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wasn’t safe with Candor anymore
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Truth serum would be preferable, of course, but it would take days to coerce Jack Kang into handing some over, as it is jealously guarded by the Candor, and I’d rather not waste a few days
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The factionless are the last hope any of us has, now that half the loyal Dauntless and all the Candor are simulation-ready, and half the Abnegation are dead
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I was worried she wouldn’t want to come with me, but I forgot where Christina came from: Candor, where the pursuit of truth is more important than anything else
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Were you there when they attacked Candor?”
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I walk to the left, careful not to advance even an inch toward the Candor
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Right outside the window, so close I could touch her if I stretched my hand through the window, is a Candor child, a girl, holding a gun that is as long as her forearm
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An orange light flashes, and all at once the window—and the windows above, below, and next to it—shatters into hundreds of tiny pebbles that shower over the Candor below
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I was given a yellow Amity shirt and black Candor pants earlier as a result of that particular edict
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She has a mother and a little sister, both former Candor
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No use—the kick hits the Candor boy in the side, and he groans, twisting away from it
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I unzip my blue sweatshirt and toss it at the Candor boy, who looks at me from the ground, blood streaming from his eyebrow
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There’s only one place that could be: Candor headquarters, where I succumbed to the truth serum
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is there a term for the Candor?”
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candor betrayed him? These were personality questions
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There were a few Abnegation outliers, and one or two Candor, but the through line is fairly consistent
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“I spoke to some of my Candor friends,” Johanna says
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She knows, not because she heard me confess to my shame in the Candor interrogation room, but because she knows, she has experienced it herself, I’m sure of it
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I saw Christina with her family on Visiting Day, when she was still just a loudmouthed Candor transfer to me
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Sometimes I go over them with Christina, and she listens better than I expected her to, Candor smart-mouth that she is
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People have also commented that the faction names are different parts of speech—three nouns (Candor, Amity, Abnegation) and two adjectives (Dauntless, Erudite)
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She had come to the city recently, and his candor
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“Thank you for your time and candor,” I said, and hoped Chofsky’s constricted sphincter speech patterns hadn’t rubbed off on me
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Roger’s career has always shown boldness in candor and dissent
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Moreover, if Josie was being frank and waiting for Roger’s move, he, on the other hand, was uncertain of her apparent candor and could not yet trust her unknown motives
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Surprised by her grandmother’s candor, Jesse said, “Really? May I ask what you were saying?”
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The President might appreciate, albeit grudgingly, Whitey's candor, not so the SecDef
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He barely had time to tell Bannister he appreciated his candor about the dedicated bird situation when a voice from the radio in his command jeep said a MAC airliner was on final approach with an engine out
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At length the man said, "In all candor, Jack, the only ones who know my full plans are me, myself and I
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Swann wondered if his recent excess of candor had been wise, but his course was set
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"Oh, stop being sorry! In a way I appreciate your honesty—your candor
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She thought rapidly, definitely not wanting to spill the beans and put up with the talk and speculation that would result from candor
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"Are you a merman, that you rise up out of the sea?" she asked, confused by the candor of his gaze, though she was accustomed to admiration
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Orastes met him with equal candor
