“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me… were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” — Art of Quotation

“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 the most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” James Baldwin, writer […]

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