There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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