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Love Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
- I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And…
- I blundered into writing.
- To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
- There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
- When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
- In order to travel far you have to be detached.
- I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
- The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
- And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
- The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
- And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.
- Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
- In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
- My hole is warm and full of light.
- The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
- God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
- Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and…
- Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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