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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 5311 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Baldwin (1924–1987), U.S. author. “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,” Nobody Knows My Name (1961). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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