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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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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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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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