Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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