Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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