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.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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