To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.James A. Baldwin
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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