Charles Baxter (author) - Love Quotes

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The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn't annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth.... In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

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The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

Charles Baxter

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

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When you're in love you don't have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don't have to move an inch.

Charles Baxter