It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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