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You think your pain and your h...

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Well,' I said, 'Paris is old, ...

Well,' I said, 'Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn't what you feel in New York Ђ' 'He was smiling. I stopped. 'What do you feel in New York?' he asked. 'Perhaps you feel,' I told him, 'all the time to come. There's such power there, everything is in such movement. You can't help wonderingЂ'I can't help wonderingЂ'what it will all be likeЂ' many years from now.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

I was guilty and irritated and...

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The universe, which is not mer...

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

One day, to everyone's astonis...

One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

A society must assume that it ...

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

If the word integration means ...

If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it

James Baldwin 434 quotes

A man's balance depends on the...

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It is hard for anyone under tw...

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

All racists are irresponsible....

All racists are irresponsible.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

One can only face in others wh...

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Societies never know it, but t...

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Somebody,' said Jacques, 'yo...

Somebody,' said Jacques, 'your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Precisely at the point when yo...

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Whoever is born in New York is...

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and,

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Because I was raised in a Chri...

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

You have to go the way your bl...

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

No one knows very much about t...

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It seems to me that one ought ...

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

If the concept of God has any ...

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....