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Quote by James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – 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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Belief
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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac

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To be honest, I sort of feel like movie actor isnt of this time. I love it. But its a 20th-century art form. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass

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We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. – John F. Kennedy

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Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. – R.M. Grenon

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. – Stefan Zweig

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