People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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