I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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