Love is the poetry of the senses!
Honor de Balzac.
“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”
“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”
“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”
“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”
“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”
“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”