Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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