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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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Purity
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James Baldwin
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I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James Baldwin

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America
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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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Anger
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

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History

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. – Arthur Henderson

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History

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. – Stockwell Day

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History

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H.L. Mencken

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History

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