Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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