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Oneself Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all…
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,…
- The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.
- One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
- The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself…
- The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
- To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
- He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.…
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