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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.

James Baldwin

People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
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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Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
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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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
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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Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
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
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents

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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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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