You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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