The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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 are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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 don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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