Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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