Europe has what we do not h... by James Baldwin, an American Educator

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“Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.”

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Name: James Baldwin

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: 1841

Date of Death: 1925

Profession: Educator

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