Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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