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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

James Baldwin

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN

Home Leave Pain Suffering
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
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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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Alive Connect People Teaching
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth

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