"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."

Power, Blind, Word

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"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."

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"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

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"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."

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"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

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"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

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"Positive life, positive action."

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"Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe."

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"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

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