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“... to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.”
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“We find what we search for — or, if we don't find it, we become it.”
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“Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?'”
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“July was the month when summer, like bread in the oven, might change color, but it would rise no higher. It was at its height.”
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“... a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.”
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“How shall I / celebrate the planet / that, even now, carries me / in its fruited womb?”
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“Ritual — which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth — goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.”
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“... one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.”