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.
JAMES BALDWINI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Everyone 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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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