There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about 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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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