Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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