"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."
"What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason."
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Source: Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.9, Harper Collins
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