To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
What you desire you call into being.
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
Weather creates character.
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.