If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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