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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."

"It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief."
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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."

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"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."

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

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