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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

Other quotes by James Baldwin

You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James Baldwin

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Oppression
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James Baldwin
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America
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James Baldwin
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Self-Discovery
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. – Richard Bach

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Self-Discovery

The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away. – Leland Val Van de Wall

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Self-Discovery

The road to self-belief is potholed. – Nyasha Madavo

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Self-Discovery

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter. – Susan M. Watkins

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Self-Discovery

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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that cant be answered. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Trouble, Troubles

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise – well, hell, to even things up next time around, Im going to have to pay for this one, am I not? – Vanessa Paradis

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Hope

Thats why I never became a director. I never had patience with people. – Ray Harryhausen

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Patience

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. – Earl of Chesterfield

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Procrastination