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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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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. – James Baldwin

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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. – Ouida

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The temperate persons pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent. – Source Unknown

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We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we dont know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we dont care that we dont. – Dylan Thomas

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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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