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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.

James Baldwin

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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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
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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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
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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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Situation Threat Victim Women
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place

Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.

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