In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
History develops, art stands still.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Eating well is a lifelong priority.