Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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 before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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