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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

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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Children
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James Baldwin
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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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Art
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James Baldwin
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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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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. – Amiel, Journal, 1884

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Self-Discovery

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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Self-Discovery

God hides things by putting them all around us. – Author Unknown

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Self-Discovery

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. – H.W. Shaw

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Self-Discovery

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Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit. – Proverb

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Agreement

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. – John Podhoretz

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History

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. – Oscar Niemeyer

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Morning

Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). – Berlin Royal Library, inscription

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Libraries