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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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. – James Baldwin

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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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If you would live innocently, seek solitude. – Publilius Syrus

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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. – Horace

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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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