You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINEveryone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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