History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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 world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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