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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions