You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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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.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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