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.
JAMES BALDWINLife 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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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