Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.