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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin
"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 a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
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