

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
― Deathless
― Deathless

“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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