Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINIt 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 are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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