The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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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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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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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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