Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.
By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.
When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.