No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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