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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.

James Baldwin

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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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWIN

Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Disappointment Hurt Limb Love Mercy People
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
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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Art Force Reality Represent
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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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
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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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
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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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place

Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.

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