I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINThere are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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 moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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