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If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.

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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…

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