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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to read more
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- read more
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now read more
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 fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to 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 colors.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of read more
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
Carve your name in hearts, not marble.
Carve your name in hearts, not marble.
