The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.James A. Baldwin
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
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