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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."

"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."

"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."

"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
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