Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin · Giovanni's Room (1956)

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin · Nobody Knows My Name (1961), The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin · From the letter from a region in his mind, first printed in The New Yorker.

How could we know that the music comes from us, we build the bridge into eternity, we are the song we sing?

James Baldwin · Just Above My Head (1979)

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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

John Berger · Ways of Seeing (1972), ch. 3

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne · Essays, III, 9

The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.

Svetlana Alexievich · The source reads: “It always troubled me that the truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There's a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world.” · Nobel Lecture (2015)

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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”

“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.”

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“How could we know that the music comes from us, we build the bridge into eternity, we are the song we sing?”

“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

“The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.”