I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness 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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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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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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