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James A. Baldwin

"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."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Amber Hurdle

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

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Amber Hurdle

"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

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Amber Hurdle

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

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Amber Hurdle

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

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Amber Hurdle

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

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Amber Hurdle

"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

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Amber Hurdle

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

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James A. Baldwin
"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."
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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"
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"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."
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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
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