Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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