Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINYouth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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