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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – 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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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – James Baldwin

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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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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. – Jean Racine

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

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