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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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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – 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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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. – Jean Racine

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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. – Thomas Traherne

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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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

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