People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINYou 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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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