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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"It is a great joy to love and be loved."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

"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."

"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."

"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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