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W.E.B. Du Bois
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The Souls of Black Folk
In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes and feel his heart beating with red blood; in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches,-one can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races, whose separation extends even to parks and streetcars."
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something."The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action."Olivier frowned. "So?""Dear boy, I must tell you a secret.""What?""I do believe it is wrong.
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
{Men} prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth {to the enlightenment of their souls}. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.""No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.""And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?"Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
There's a reason we live in time. We are too small a flask {...} to tolerate too much knowing. Instead, truth must drip through us as through a pipette, to allow only moments of apprehension. Moments diffuse and miniature enough to be survived.
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Gregory Maguire
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Wicked: The Life and Times of
I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
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Patricia Highsmith
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Nothing That Meets the Eye:
Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be
She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be
It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be
She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Sexing the Cherry
The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe.
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Powerbook
There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilisation, but to become that city, that civilisation, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what you hated, and what you hated was what you did not understand.
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