You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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