If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.
Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find
I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.
Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.
any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil. '
May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.