Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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 is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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