But a lover is dogmatic. To him the world shall be beautiful and pure. When it is not, he ignores it.
Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.
As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved. For Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possess...
We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.
ما آنطور که خودمان فکر میکنیم نیستیم، بلکه آنطوریم که مغز دیگران درباره ما میاندیشد.
An Italian can never be ignored, least of all when he has a grievance.
You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that...
You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.
What does unhappiness matter when we are all unhappy together?
Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.
They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full o...
The love that Socrates bore Phaedo now lay within his reach, love passionate but temperate, such as only finer natures can understand, and he found in Maurice a nature that was not indeed fine, but ch...
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
She wandered as though in a dream, through the wavering sea of barley, touched with crimson stains of poppies. All unobserved, he came to her…There came from his lips no wordy protestations such as fo...
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors—Light.