The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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