Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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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.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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