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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because t

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – 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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Belief
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. – James Baldwin

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relationship
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When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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Reading
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Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. – Julie Burchill

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Beauty

I feel fortunate that Im not a beauty. Im not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts. – Olivia Colman

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Beauty

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. – Dita Von Teese

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Beauty

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. – James Weldon Johnson

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Beauty

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To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. – Dale Murphy

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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. – Alfred North Whitehead

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The man breathed in deeply—of rosebuds and mint, of sunny meadows and salty cliffs, of streams in no hurry and the sound of bagpipes. – Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea, 1993

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I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because its not good for me. – Shania Twain

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