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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 endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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Emotionally Factually Knows Stories True
Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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 made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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Another Back Before Talk Chance Kill Moment Myself Save Turn
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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