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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

James Baldwin

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN

Coward Fools Man People Truth
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love 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
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Goodness Honesty Man One Liner Self Love Writing
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
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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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWIN

Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWIN

Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror

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