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Quote by James Baldwin
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. - Jame

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. – James Baldwin

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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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History
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. – James Baldwin

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

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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz, “Personal Conduct,” The Second Sin, 1973

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Self-Discovery

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. – Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985

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Self-Discovery

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. – Dr. Alexis Carrel

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Self-Discovery

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot

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Self-Discovery

Random Quotes

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. – Robert Frost

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work

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. – Henry Ford

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Quality

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. – Catherine Deneuve

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movies

If you get hung up on everybody elses hang-ups, then the whole worlds going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. – Richard Brautigan

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Mental Illness