Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINThere 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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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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