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.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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