Everybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about 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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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