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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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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
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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."

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

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."

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

"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."

"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."
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