Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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 role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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