We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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