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Quote by James Baldwin
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own dest

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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Christianity
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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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The innocent is the person who explains nothing. – Albert Camus

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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. – Anatole France

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All things truly wicked start from an innocence. – Ernest Hemingway

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. – G. K. Chesterton

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