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Quote by James Baldwin
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – 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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Change
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James Baldwin
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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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Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. РFran̤ois de La Rochefoucauld

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I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

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It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. – John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese

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Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. – Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

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O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens. – John Keats

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