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James Arthur Baldwin Quotes

«One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.»
«There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.»
«Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.»
«Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.»
«I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.»
«The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.»
«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 making of bread.»
«The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.»
«No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.»
«If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.»

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