95 ordspråk av James Arthur Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin föddes den August 2nd 1924 och dog den 1 December 1987 - US writer
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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. |
| The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. |
| The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. |
| The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in |
| The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. |
| The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. |
| There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. |
| There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. |
| 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. |
| Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. |
| To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. |
| True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. |
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