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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople 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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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