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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."
"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
"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."
"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."
"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
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