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 BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People 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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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