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“The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'”

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Aesop, born around 620 BC and died around 564 BC, was a renowned Greek fabulist. His life remains shrouded in mystery, with accounts suggesting he was born in Ionia and later became a slave. Aesop is famous for his concise and profound fables, which have been widely celebrated and continue to influence literature and moral education to this day. more

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who 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 ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”

People Ifs Thinking World Pain Faces Alive Taught Empathy Connected Wounds World History Unprecedented Dickens

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.”

Stories Fantasy Novel Childhood Observation Usual Bleak

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.”

Ifs World Believe Would Be Belief Moral Standards Betrayal

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.”

People Ifs Kind Mean Art Seems Faces Term Effort Connected Magazines Confession Dreary

Author:James A. Baldwin