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If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
– James Baldwin

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  3. There is no limit to life. The only limit is the limit you put into life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  4. They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came. – Tania James
  5. But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop? – Vladimir Nabokov
  6. For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
  7. The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is. – Suzy Kassem
  8. The limit in life is the only limit you set. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  9. The only limit to what you can achieve is the limit you set for yourself. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  10. You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place? – AE Samaan
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  13. Successful people don’t have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit – Santosh Avvannavar
  14. A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. – James Baldwin
  15. 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
  16. Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox. – James Baldwin
  17. The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. – James Baldwin
  18. The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. – James Baldwin
  19. And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. – James Baldwin
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  21. Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being. – James Baldwin
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  23. Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. – James Baldwin
  24. And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me. – James Baldwin
  25. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. – James Baldwin
  26. The power to define the other seals one’s definition of oneself. – James Baldwin
  27. I don’t know any writers who don’t drink. – James Baldwin
  28. People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. – James Baldwin
  29. She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away. – James Baldwin
  30. And there was something so artless in this smile that I had to smile back. – James Baldwin
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  32. The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-”a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall. – James Baldwin
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  35. Sin is the only heritage of the natural man… – James Baldwin
  36. We live in a nation of pigs and murderers. – James Baldwin
  37. There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now. – James Baldwin
  38. We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become – James Baldwin
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