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Everybody’s journey is individual.

James Baldwin

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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
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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Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
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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Alive Connect People Teaching
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Deep Insult One Liner Person Respect Treat
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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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong

Everybody’s journey is individual.

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