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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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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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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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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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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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