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The impossible is the least that one can demand.

James Baldwin

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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Arrive People Perpetual 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
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
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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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
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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According Change People Person Reality World
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
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
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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Art Force Reality Represent
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
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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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

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