No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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