“ Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ”
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“ Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ”
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“ Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ”
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“ Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ”
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“ Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ”
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“ Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ”
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“ Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ”
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“ The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. ”
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“ The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. ”
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“ Take no one’s word for anything, including mine – but trust your experience. ”
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“ American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. ”
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“ Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ”
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“ American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. ”
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“ Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ”
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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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“ Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ”
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“ Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ”
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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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“ It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French. ”
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“ Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ”
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“ Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ”
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“ 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. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of deathought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. ”
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“ For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strongwilled and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in selfdeception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion. ”
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“ Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. ”
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