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Hidden Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
- The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
- Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are.…
- Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
- The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
More Hidden Quotes
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it… — Saint Augustine
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. — Francis Bacon
- Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart,… — Henry Adams
- Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,… — Saint Basil
- The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.… — Charles Baudelaire
- Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath… — Jean Baudrillard
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison