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Lovers Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of…
- There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things…
- A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
- Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words…
- If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get…
- In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
- Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear…
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- 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
- Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. — Honore de Balzac
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not… — Brigitte Bardot
- The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the… — Djuna Barnes