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.
JAMES BALDWINTo 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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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