Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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