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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality read more
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.
A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on read more
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
