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Everybody’s journey is individual.

James Baldwin

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People Truth
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
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
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
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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Pain People Suffering
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
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
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Cruel Death Die Live Love
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner

Everybody’s journey is individual.

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