You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINThere are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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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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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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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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 was a country he knew nothing about.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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