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James Baldwin Quotes

James Baldwin quotes about passion

American Educator, Writer August 6, 1924 – November 30, 1987

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Beneath the face of anyone you ever loved for true - anyone you love, you will always love, love is not at the mercy of time and it does not recognize death, they are strangers to each other - beneath the face of the beloved, however ancient, ruined, and scarred, is the face of the baby your love once was, and will always be, for you. Love serves, then, if memory doesn't, and passion, apart from its tense relation to agony, labors beneath the shadow of death. Passion is terrifying, it can... James Baldwin
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
James Baldwin quote: "True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both..."
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life James Baldwin
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is notitself, and, as they very definition of passionimplies the impulse to freedom, it has a mightintimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope. James Baldwin

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