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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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 want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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