James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

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  • Anaghahas quoted2 years ago
    I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    one of the real troubles with living is that living is so banal. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road—and the road has a trick of being most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright—and it’s true that nobody stays in the garden of Eden.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    It seemed, then, that a lifetime would not be long enough for me to act with Joey the act of love.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    bed, in its sweet disorder, testified to vileness.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    “Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,” Jacques said. And then: “I wonder why.”
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    But people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person’s body, of another person’s smell.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    I told her that I had loved her once and I made myself believe it.
  • amie yumihas quoted4 months ago
    for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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