It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINIf 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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