A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.