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"The man who cannot suffer can never grow up - can never know who they are. That man who is forced to snatch his humanity from the fires of Human cruelty - that rage to destroy it - learns something about himself , if he survives his ordeal. And even if he doesn’t; that, no school on earth, and indeed no church can teach. He gains a sense of his own authority and THAT is unshakeable. For in order to survive, he must learn to hear the meaning behind the words, to see beneath appearances, to take NOTHING for granted. Because when one is constantly surviving the worst that life has to bring - one eventually ceases to be controlled by the fear of what life can bring…"
- Baldwin (via drfoo) (via electronicalrattlebag)
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