There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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