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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.

James Baldwin

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
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
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
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Friendship Invent Love Lover Parents People Unhappiness
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
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Happen History Million Past People
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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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
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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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Absolute Desolation Fear One Liner Splendor
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
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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Arrive People Perpetual World
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
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
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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Colour Human Naked Sex
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable

Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.

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