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“I realized that I had come to my own terms with the desert, but my soul was thirsty.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing—maybe more important than a star. This is not theology, I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed—because 'Thou mayest.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Love him,' said Jacques, with vehemence, 'love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?...And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty—they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty; you can give each other something which will make both of you better—forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.”
― Giovanni's Room
― Giovanni's Room
“So it is that now I denounce and defend, or feel prepared to defend. I condemn and affirm, say no and say yes, say yes and say no. I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man— but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division. So I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love.”
― Invisble Man
― Invisble Man
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