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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.



If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.



Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.



Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.



Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.



Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.



I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.



I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.



The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.



The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.



Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.



The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.



You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.



Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.



The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.








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