For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINIf 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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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 role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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