There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINLife 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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