Posted by: Francesca Nacca
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Desire)
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
The ideal husband does not exist. The ideal husband remains single.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.
Man has enough memory to remember hundreds of anecdotes, but not enough to remember who told them.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
There is no use in telling someone what they don't feel as their own and that they can't understand.
Any place you love is the world to you, but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.