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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

According Change People Person Reality World
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Deakness Deep Healing Life Walk Whistle
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
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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Home Leave Pain Suffering
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Pain People Suffering

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

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