I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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