Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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I 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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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