You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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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