“Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it.”— James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, 1968Share
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”— James BaldwinShare
“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”— James BaldwinShare
“Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.”— James BaldwinShare
“Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”— John MiltonShare
“Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.”— François de La RochefoucauldShare
