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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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