No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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