It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change 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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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