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.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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