Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,And why the sailing birds are all Romantics.
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?
And yet methinks the older that one growsInclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after.
What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.
All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.
Sade's work, with its compulsive attraction for the delinquent imagination of the romantics, has been instrumental in shaping aspects of the modern sensibility; its paranoia, its despair, its sexual t...
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of...