You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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