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"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."
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"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving."
"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."
"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
"Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor."
"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."
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"Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own."
"So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
"With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never."
"You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out."
"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."
"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."
"But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."
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