Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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