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• While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the…
• Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm,…
• Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
• Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.
• The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
• The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.
• I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement…
• Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is…
• It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though…
• The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.
• The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it…
• There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

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