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Claude McKay Quotes: It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.
         

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.


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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.



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If we must die, O let us nobly die.



Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.

Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.



And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.





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