People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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