There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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