The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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