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This time, some of it comes from the fact that a tiny spark inside me feels alive for the first time in twenty


“Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
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“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored”
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“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”
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“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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