Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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