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“The purpose of art,” James Baldwin wrote, “is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers.” He might have been channeling Dostoyevsky’s statement that “we have all the answers. It is the questions we do not know.
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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James’s 2025 Year in Books
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