Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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No man is a devil in his own 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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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