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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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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."

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"And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told..."

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"Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God."

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"It is not what you don't know that hurts you; it is what you do know, which is not the truth that does your spirit the most harm."

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"The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life!"

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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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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
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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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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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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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