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Avoid Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
- The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know…
- The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
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