Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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 can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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