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Lovers Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- 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…
- The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
- 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…
- True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
- The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to…
- The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the…
- Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers…
- The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious…
- For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea…
- He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.…
More Lovers Quotes
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore de Balzac
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac