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


James A. Baldwin

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You have her father's love, Demetrius;
Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
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JAMES BALDWIN But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and lig...
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All my heart.'
Then how can you let him leave next year?'
I g...
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PAUL WALKER I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will
SYLVIA PLATH So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.
'Mum! I can't give ...
J.K. ROWLING If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
CALVIN KLEIN You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
FRED ROGERS I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get any...
LUCILLE BALL I remember very vividly the last words I told him: 'I'm here, I love you, I won't let anything bad h...
TIM ALBRIGHT My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I'd do anything for you And my love, let not...
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DEBASISH MRIDHA You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...
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JAMES M. BARRIE When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.
AGNETHA FALTSKOG Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
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BILL KILLION Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.
LARRY HAGMAN and I don't think we can do anything for him. It only makes him worse if you try to be nice to him.
C.S. LEWIS We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take ca...
STEVEN BRILL He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.
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JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO If you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him little, that little let him enjoy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure so...
C.S. LEWIS …If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY A man's desire is to find a good woman, that can make him smile, a woman that can understand him and...
LIAH BARE Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN You love new boyfriend?"
"I think so. Yes."
"Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil yo...
ELIZABETH GILBERT And more than that is his love for the game, which you can really see when you watch him conduct a c...
RONNIE CARTER She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress.
ANTHONY LICCIONE she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else...
BOB MARLEY Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questio...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I’m your big sister. I don’t have to see anything to know James is always something bad.”
KIERSTEN WHITE When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
IRWIN WINKLER You can do anything you want with him. You can hit-and-run with him, bunt. We push the game with him...
TONY LA RUSSA You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really ma...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You were always saying you were gonna shoot him," he mutters, but it's kind of half-hearted. "Stupid...
RICHARD RIDER You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it hi...
DAVE CULLEN I love you," I said, and stabbed him.
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BILL POLIAN Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never bee...
RICHARD YATES You will love him to ruins.
MICHELLE HODKIN Dear Lord, we know that You are a Father and that you love your Son. [...] We know how deep Your lov...
CAROLYNE AARSEN If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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DAVID GOYER Would you like me to let you go home to your love today?" he asked. It was obvious that my preferenc...
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JAMES BALDWIN With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.
JAMES BALDWIN I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.
JAMES BALDWIN Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be revealed onl...
JAMES BALDWIN You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
JAMES BALDWIN The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not ...
JAMES BALDWIN Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not re...
JAMES BALDWIN People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to...
JAMES BALDWIN [I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simpl...
JAMES BALDWIN Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES BALDWIN Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are...
JAMES BALDWIN Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young...
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the indepen...
JAMES BALDWIN If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWIN The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.
JAMES BALDWIN It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, b...
JAMES BALDWIN Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
JAMES BALDWIN If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impass...
JAMES BALDWIN In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word...
JAMES BALDWIN But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the s...
JAMES BALDWIN To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be JAMES BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES BALDWIN If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory pl...
JAMES BALDWIN And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.
JAMES BALDWIN The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization...
JAMES BALDWIN Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents,...
JAMES BALDWIN I remembered my mother’s insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked...
JAMES BALDWIN Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, f...
JAMES BALDWIN Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that ga...
JAMES BALDWIN