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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.

James Baldwin

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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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
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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Mirror People Person Truth
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
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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Change People Reality World Writing
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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
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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Home Leave Pain Suffering
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.

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