The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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