James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room (1956)

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If I could make you stay, I would,' he shouted. 'If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.' He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. 'One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

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I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.

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My face is like a face you have seen many times.

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