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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality."

"We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay."

"We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others."

"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."

"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen."

"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."
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