Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINEveryone 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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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