I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

What a blessing it is to love books.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.