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“Life wears us, uses us -- but we wear it and use it in return, and it is blind, whereas we, after a fashion, see.”
― Henry James

“We must allow the artist his subject. It is only what he makes of it that we can judge.”
― Henry James

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
― James Baldwin

“Time is the element in which we exist... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Marya