You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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