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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. ↗

— 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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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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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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There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. ↗

— James Baldwin

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The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James Baldwin

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