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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 2nd, 1924

Died: December 1st, 1987

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