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 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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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