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/ page 147 of 1205 /I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
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A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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'Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful, Beyond all dreams to restore,...
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Who said, 'All Time's delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life's troubled bubble broken'?— That's what I said.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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