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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Ralph Ellison

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Enough Morning Museum Sun
We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Action Definition Hibernation Implement Preparation
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Hope Man Picture Soaring Vulture
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Art Justice Love Miracle Protest Social
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Action Activity Energy Form Mind Power Shapes
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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Afternoon Aware Awoke Flood Ice Melting Threat Week Winter
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Asking Being Yourself Individuality Myself Query Question
Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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Confirm Death Giving Life Light Reality Truth
the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music

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