Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

Quote by James Arthur Baldwin

Topics: Love Quotes

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is...

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion,...

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion,...

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take...

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of...

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful...

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of...

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most...

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most...

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are...

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are...

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny...

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children...

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children...