“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”

“There is always something left to love.”

“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more...”

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, wh...”

“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”

“The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.”

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