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Love 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.

James Baldwin

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Change People Reality World Writing
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Home Leave Pain Suffering
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Pain People Suffering
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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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness

Love 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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Love 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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