When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINTrue 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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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