Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWINTrue 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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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