"I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth."

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"Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting."

Pacifism

"It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me."

Awakening

"It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years."

Stillness

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."

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"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."

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"Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were."

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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

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"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."

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"Listen: it's got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance or shame or repentance overtakes us."

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