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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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"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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"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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"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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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
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