Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWINNo one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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