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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

James Baldwin

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

According Change People Person Reality World
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Change People Reality World Writing

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