It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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