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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world. But books taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987.
-- James Baldwin, (Aug 2 1924-1987), US novelist, essayist; He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.

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