It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fon...d of (as one is fond of oneself)Mto hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At each minute we are crushed by the idea and the feeling of time. And there are only two ways to escape this nightmare, Mto forge...t it: pleasure and work. Pleasure wears us out. Work fortifies us. Let's choose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfort...une, was Stephen's answer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The goods of fortune ... were never intended to be talked out of the world.--But as virtue and true wisdom lie in the middle of ex...tremes,--on one hand, not to neglect and despise riches, so as to forget ourselves,--and on the other, not to pursue and love them so, as to forget God;Mto have them sometimes in our heads,--but always something more important in our hearts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »