No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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