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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
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"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
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"How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others."
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"Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth."
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"Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are."
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"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."
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"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies"
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"Boredom: the desire for desires."
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that."
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"Be confident. Be successful. Bebeautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest. Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Beeducated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just beyou!"
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"Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light."
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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive."
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"Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering."
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
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"Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies."
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"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."
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"Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them."
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"I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language. I began to ask each time: What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth? Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, disappeared or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking."
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