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James A. Baldwin has 335 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
• The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a…
• I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
• To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present…
• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
• Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…

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