It was books that 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.

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It was books that 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. - James Baldwin

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It was books that 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. - Martin Heidegger quotes