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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
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Personal Development
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
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Personal Development
"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"
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Personal Development
"Knowledge is life."
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Personal Development
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
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Personal Development
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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Personal Development
"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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Personal Development
"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
Black
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
Money
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
Life
"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
People
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair
"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."
Experience
"She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves."
Love
"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."
Now
"Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town."
Thought
"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her."
Family
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