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James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. 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, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Charlotte Brontë
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

James Baldwin
“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

James Baldwin
“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
James Baldwin

Franz Kafka
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
Franz Kafka, The Trial

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