People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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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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