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It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
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Employment is my right my destiny.
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Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
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Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.
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It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
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We can make America what America must become.
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Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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You don't need numbers you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!
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After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
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We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.
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Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head
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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
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It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.
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Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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