People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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