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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."
"The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant."
"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."
"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."
"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."
"Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles."
"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."
"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."
"The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own."
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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
"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."
"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."
"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."
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