• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

  James Baldwin
  American writer 1924-1987
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1. bequeathed
2. dependence
3. endlessly
4. betrayed

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. by : James Baldwin

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