A curious and eager soul was imprisoned in all thi — Thornton Wilder
A curious and eager soul was imprisoned in all this lard, but by dint of never refusing himself a pheasant or a goose or his daily procession of Roman wines, he was his own bitter jailer.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), closing words
I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Albert Camus
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
Voltaire
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
Voltaire
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus