Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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