Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it. History as a System
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. Maxim for Revolutionists
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. The Hobbit
Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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