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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."
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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."

"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will."

"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
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