Their own destruction

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

James Baldwin
“Stranger in the Village” in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction

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