Quote by James Baldwin
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. – James Baldwin

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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. – James Baldwin

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who does not know how to believe, should not know. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Every time a child says, I dont believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. – James Barrie

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It is easier to believe than to doubt. – E.D. Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education

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