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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

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For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

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Abandon all hope, you who enter here!

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I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

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The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.

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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

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Don't bring negative to my door.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'

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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas,

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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. Wouldn'

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