Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

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Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.

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