No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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