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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.

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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
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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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Home Leave Pain Suffering
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Deakness Deep Healing Life Walk Whistle
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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Arrive People Perpetual World
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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Change People Reality World Writing
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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Coward Fools Man People Truth
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle

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