# Quote — James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

> 'Somebody,' said Jacques, 'your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour — and in the oddest places! — for the lack of it.'

- Author: [James Baldwin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin.md)
- Book: [Giovanni's Room](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room.md)
- Page: 51
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room/somebody-said-jacques

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> I shall never be able to have any more of these boyish, zestful affairs — which are, really, when one thinks about it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly.

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room/i-shall-never.md)

> She is smiling and her eyes are kind but now the smile is purely social

p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room/she-is-smiling.md)

> Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room/nothing-is-more.md)