Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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