All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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