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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
“To be human is to be a witness.
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
“What we call peace is nothing but a temporary truce.
“It is a fearful thing to be alone.
“A man without memory is like the wind — free but without direction.
“Time does not heal all wounds. It only teaches us to live with them.
“I demand to be loved. I demand to be respected. I demand to be understood.
“Freedom is a drug that once tasted cannot be forgotten.
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life.
“If you're not careful, newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the oppressors.
“A person doesn't die when he should, but when he can.
“Man himself has become our greatest hazard. We are not only too many, but also too few.
“I was determined that I would write about the people around me.
“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves?
“The poor exist so that we may feel the guilt of our comfort.