The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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