--- title: "2 Black eyes Quotes By A.S. Byatt" description: "2 Black eyes quotes by A.S. Byatt. Plus more from A.S. Byatt and more Black eyes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25d/a-s-byatt-5275_black-eyes_i-have-always-believed-i-cd-diagnose-thi_590529.png" --- > [“...I have always believed I cd diagnose this state of being in love, which they regard as most particular, as inspired by item, one pair of black eyes or indifferent blue, item, one graceful attitude of body or mind, item,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/i-have-always-believed-i-cd-diagnose-this-state-of-being-in-love/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25d/a-s-byatt-5275_black-eyes_i-have-always-believed-i-cd-diagnose-thi_590529.png) > [“You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be loved in its particularity, not its generality, but for its universal life in every minute particular. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/you-know-all-poetry-may-be-a-cry-of-generalised-love-for-this-or-that/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/035/a-s-byatt-5275_black-eyes_you-know-all-poetry-may-be-a-cry-of-gene_2142117.jpg) ## Other authors on Black eyes ## More by A.S. Byatt > [“...bleached by darkness”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/bleached-by-darkness/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/above-his-head-at-street-level-he-saw-an-angled-aileron-of-a-scarlet/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle. "I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/why-do-you-go-cold-he-kept-his-voice-gentle-i-i-ve-analysed-it/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/she-was-a-thinking-child-and-worked-this-out-it-hurt-her-unlike-most/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/those-words-national-and-portrait-they-were-both-to-do-with-identity/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“All these are true and none. The place is there Is what we name it, and is not. It is .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/all-these-are-true-and-none-the-place-is-there-is-what-we-name-it-and/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/he-had-been-taught-that-language-was-essentially-inadequate-that-it/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“ We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/we-must-come-to-grief-and-regret-anyway-and-i-for-one-would-rather/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/roland-had-learned-to-see-himself-theoretically-as-a-crossing-place/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/she-thought-human-thoughts-and-stone-thoughts-the-latter-were-slow/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“…it will be possible, in the time of the wolf, to kill the gods.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/it-will-be-possible-in-the-time-of-the-wolf-to-kill-the-gods/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“She looked, quickly, quickly, it was better than before, thanked him and averted her eyes. She came to trust him with her disintegration.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/she-looked-quickly-quickly-it-was-better-than-before-thanked-him-and/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/this-is-where-i-have-always-been-coming-to-since-my-time-began-and/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“...I have always believed I cd diagnose this state of being in love, which they regard as most particular, as inspired by item, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/i-have-always-believed-i-cd-diagnose-this-state-of-being-in-love/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the end of the nineteenth century, were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/the-children-mingled-with-the-adults-and-spoke-and-were-spoken-to/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/black-eyes/a-s-byatt/#itemlist", "name": "2 Black eyes Quotes By A.S. 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