No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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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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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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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