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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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