It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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