Life and Existence

You command continence; give what you command, and command what you will.

Tolle lege, tolle lege.

Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty both so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee.

Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

When he was reading, he drew his eyes along over the leaves, and his heart searched into the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent.

You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

Some thirty inches from my nose

Some thirty inches from my nose

Lay your sleeping head, my love,

Time that with this strange excuse

You were silly like us; your gift survived it all:

You were silly like us; your gift survived it all:

To us he is no more a person

To us he is no more a person

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.