Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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