Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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