It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
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The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
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If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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