To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.
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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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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.
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
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