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James A. Baldwin

"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."

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"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

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A.E. Samaan

"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

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"My truth could be very different than your truth."

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A.E. Samaan

"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

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A.E. Samaan

"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."

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A.E. Samaan

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

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"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."

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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
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"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
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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."
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