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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

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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. – James Baldwin

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alone
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Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. – William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”

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Self-Discovery

“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures

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Self-Discovery

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens

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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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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. – Ogden Nash

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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. – Samantha Morton

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To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. – James Dean

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A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs

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