I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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