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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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