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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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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Book Environment Fail Support
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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Act Alone Assumption Been Blood Live Long Saw Suffering
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
If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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Half Halfway House Inside Make Mind Small
there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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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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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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