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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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