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.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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