Tag: James Arthur Baldwin

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

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No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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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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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

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