All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

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Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

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The creative adult is the child who has survived.

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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

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