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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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Activity Attention God Hollywood Hunt Invisible Men Risk Spook
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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Almighty Good Merry Go Round Sacrifice Wanted
And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Absurdity Awesome Better Die Life Live Share
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
You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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Experience Grandfather Mind Side Start Trying Young
I blundered into writing.
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Blunder heavy Idea One Liner Planning Practise Thought Writing
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Available Discover Inspirational Inspiring Life One Liner
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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Ancestor Emotion Family People Relationship
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Enough Morning Museum Sun
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Dangerous Few Permission Prohibited Sleepwaker World
I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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Feeling Bad Loose Low Needs Sad Territory Unhappy Worst
I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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Arrows Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Moving Things To Do
Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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Ability Humanity Little Lying Power Reveal Writer

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