If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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