The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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