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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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