Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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