People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINPeople 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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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