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"The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear."
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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"

"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

"Only cowards leave words unspoken."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

"The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world."

"I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion."

"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."

"The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct."

"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"

"One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life."

"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."
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