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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.



The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.



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.



If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.



Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.



People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.



If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.



An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.



An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.



People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.



People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.



Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.



The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.



Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it is true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.








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