Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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