I'm a really cheesy romantic I like to light candles and listen to romantic music
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Freedom requires guns.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of rain cling to her unkerchiefed, loosened hair, capturing in her the flickering russet frame of it. Topaz almonds are her eyes, lit tonight from some new, old place, from some exquisitely secret oubliette, which she must often forget she possesses. We talk for a minute and Barlozzo passes us by like a boy too shy to speak to two girls at once.
I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters