The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
JAMES BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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