Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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