No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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