Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Quote by James Arthur Baldwin

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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful...

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful...

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot...

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and...

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take...

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take...

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

A man is known by the company he avoids.

A man is known by the company he avoids.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be...

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be...