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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

James Baldwin

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWIN

Absolute Desolation Fear One Liner Splendor
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN

Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN

Coward Fools Man People Truth
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
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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Alive Connect People Teaching
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

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