The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Votes: 14
Love is the cheapest of religions. Votes: 3
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. Votes: 0
Don't mix wine and women. Votes: 0
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? Votes: 0
Love is desire for knowledge. Votes: 0
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. Votes: 0
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. Votes: 0
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. Votes: 0
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. Votes: 0
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God . Votes: 0
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. Votes: 0
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. Votes: 0