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“Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Only the earth and mountains”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
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“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.”
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