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Quote by James Baldwin
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. - Ja

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. – James Baldwin

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Kwanzaa
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James Baldwin
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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 in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

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Failure
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James Baldwin
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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 crutch. – James Baldwin

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Perspective
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James Baldwin
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me. – Ziggy Marley

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Experience

I think were the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. Its not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. – Rainn Wilson

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Experience

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. – Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910

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Experience

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. – Jackie Kennedy

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Experience

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I think weve been dulled by capitalism. Were just blobs now – were so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You cant really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot. – Rupert Everett

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Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by mans own will. – Thomas Aquinas

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Happiness

God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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God

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich

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Society