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James A. Baldwin has 335 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
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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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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
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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…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…
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Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute…
— John Dewey
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There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
— David Romtvedt
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The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it.…
— Alice Miller
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Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
— Candace Bushnell
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Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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