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.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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