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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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