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Quote by James Baldwin
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones be

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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